November 18, 2013

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MEN’S HOCKEY

The community wants to move forward with more students on board.

Attorneys gave closing statements Friday; a verdict could take months.

Michael Shibrowski started in net and recorded his first career shutout.

After a turbulent month, Como looks to students

Both sides await decision in Brenny trial

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Shibrowski fills in, helps Gophers to a series sweep u See PAGE 8

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Jackson is dean, health VP

After 62 wins, Gophers fall to North Dakota

Dr. Brooks Jackson of Johns Hopkins University will replace Dr. Aaron Friedman.

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

I coached the Gophers, this will be a real special thing.”

Senior captain Bethany Brausen said the locker room was emotional after the game, but she tried to “pull it together” for the rest of the team.

North Dakota jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the first period, and Frost said his team was “outmuscled” and “outworked” during the frame.

Nor th Dakota came out the way the

Dr. Brooks Jackson will ser ve as the next University of Minnesota Medical School dean and vice president for health sciences, the University announced Thursday.

Jackson currently directs the pathology department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He ser ved his residency at the University of Minnesota Medical School and was an assistant professor in the school from 1985-89.

Pending approval from the University’s Board of Regents, Jackson will replace Dr. Aaron Friedman, the current dean and vice president, in February. He’ll earn an annual salary of $725,000. Friedman, who’s served in these roles since 2011, earned an annual salary of $425,000.

“We’re ver y excited to be able to attract a leader of Dr. Jackson’s caliber,” University President Eric Kaler told repor ters Thursday. “It’s an incredibly important hire.”

The vice president for health sciences oversees the six schools in the Academic Health Center, including the Medical School.

Jackson said he’ll make it a point to balance his attention between all of the schools.

“I want to make sure that all the health sciences are successful, not just the Medical School,” he said.

u See HOCKEY Page 8 Frost said he expected the Gophers to score late and was proud of how the team generated chances.

u See JACKSON Page 14 Under Jackson, NIH funding for Johns Hopkins’ pathology department rose to No. 1 in the nation.

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

University of North Dakota women’s hockey players celebrate Sunday after snapping the University of Minnesota women’s hockey team’s 62-game winning streak.

North Dakota took an early lead, ultimately beating the Gophers 3-2 at Ridder Arena.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

On Feb. 17, 2012, the University of Minnesota women’s hockey team lost to the University of North Dakota.

The Gophers didn’t lose another game until Sunday.

After a couple of national championships and 62 wins for Minnesota, the same team

that marked the beginning of the streak ended it.

“We’re not sad because it’s over; we’re happy because we were a part of it,” Gophers head coach Brad Frost said after Sunday’s 3-2 loss to North Dakota. “I’ll tip my hat to anybody who can go to 62 or 63 games without a loss.”

Before Minnesota started its streak, the best Division I women’s hockey winning streak was 21 games.

“When you’re in the midst of something like this, you don’t really think about it. It’s hard to quantify,” Frost said. “I think when I’m old and gray and looking back on when

BUSINESS

CITY GOVERNMENT

Incumbents talk Pub crawl could shamble to St. Paul future after loss Defeated council members plan to stay involved in their communities.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

City Council members who lost in the Nov. 5 election have unfinished business before cleaning out their of fices in City Hall, including priming newcomers and finalizing projects.

Outgoing council members Don Samuels, Diane

Hofstede, Robert Lilligren and Meg Tuthill lost their seats after a combined 32 years on the City Council.

Their terms will expire next year.

Samuels said he’s focusing on safety and education during his final months on the City Council. Hofstede said she’s reviewing 2014 city budget proposals, and Lilligren said he’s preparing newly elected council members for their u See COUNCIL Page 3 The defeated incumbents aren’t sure if they’ll run for office again.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Students want right to bare arms at rec MSA could appeal the rec center’s rule against sleeveless shirts next month.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

Many University of Minnesota students are unhappy with the current dress code at the University Recreation and Wellness Center, a recent poll found.

Eighty-eight percent of rec center users recently polled by the Minnesota Stu-

dent Association said they support changing the policy to allow sleeveless shir ts while exercising. Current policy requires patrons to wear T-shirts with sleeves in many exercise areas.

French freshman Grace Duginski called the current policy “completely unnecessary.”

“I don’t know anybody who’s going to be offended by a little shoulder at the gym,” she said. “No one u See REC Page 5 The rule has been challenged many times since it was adopted.

The new stadium could push the Zombie Pub Crawl out of Minneapolis.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

One of the largest outdoor events in Minneapolis could be on the move, and it isn’t due to a lack of brains.

The Zombie Pub Crawl has amassed a recordbreaking following since it started in 2005. The West Bank business district near the University of Minnesota has ser ved as the primar y hub for the event, but that could change for the pub crawl’s 10-year anniversary.

Construction of the new Minnesota V ikings stadium could encroach on the crawl’s route. ZPC cofounder Charles Terhark said losing the parking lots on Por tland Avenue and

LISA PERSSON, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Lauren Gantner looks over the edge of a Ferris wheel in Minneapolis at the Zombie Pub Crawl on Oct. 12.

South Four th Street — known as the “Quarantine Zone” for this year’s rendition of the crawl — would force organizers to find another place to hold thou-

sands of zombies.

“We don’t know exactly what it’s going to look like next year,” Terhark said.

“We’d obviously like to keep it on the West Bank

because that’s where we’ve been doing it forever … but u See ZOMBIE Page 5 This year’s pub crawl attracted about 25,000 faux-undead.

STUDENT LIFE

Many study abroad, but U looks to boost numbers The U leads in total students abroad, but participation is on track with peers.

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota is a national leader in the number of students who study abroad but not

the percentage of them, a recent report found.

The University had the third-most students studying abroad for credit in the 2011-12 school year, according to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors report. To increase this number, the University’s Lear ning Abroad Center is adapting some programs to fulfill more curriculum requirements.

Although the University had a higher number, other Big Ten schools like Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University have a higher percentage of students who study abroad. In the 2011-12 school year, the University had a higher enrollment total than any of the other three schools.

Overall, U.S. students

studying abroad increased by 3 percent during the 201213 school year, the report said, and study abroad participation has more than tripled over the past two decades.

Top destinations during the year surveyed were the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. u See ABROAD Page 4 The University has added more study abroad trips for credit.

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Army scrapping four US chemical weapons incinerators

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ANNISTON, Ala. — The Pentagon spent $10.2 billion over three decades bur ning tons of deadly nerve gas and other chemical weapons stor ed in four states — some of the agents so deadly even a few drops can kill.

Now, with all those chemicals up in smoke and communities freed of a threat, the Army is in the middle of another, $1.3 billion project: Demolishing the incinerators that destroyed the toxic materials.

In Alabama, Oregon, Utah and Arkansas, crews are either tearing apar t multibillion-dollar incinerators or working to draw the curtain on a drama that began in the Cold War, when the United States and the former Soviet Union stockpiled millions of pounds of chemical weapons.

Construction work continues at two other sites where technology other than incineration will be used to neutralize agents

chemically, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At the incinerator complex at the Anniston Army Depot — where sarin, VX nerve gas and mustard gas were stored about 55 miles east of Birmingham — the militar y this week said it’s about one-third of the way into a $310 million program to level a gigantic furnace that cost $2.4 billion to build and operate.

Tim Gar rett, the government site project manager, said officials considered doing something else with the incinerator, but the facility was too specialized to convert for another use. Also, the law originally allowing chemical incineration required demolition once the work was done.

So teams ar e using large machines to knock holes in thick concrete walls and rip steel beams off the building’s skeleton, which was previously decontaminated to guar d against any lingering nerve agents or mustard gas.

Metal pieces are being recycled, and the rest will be hauled to an ordinar y landfill.

“It’s the end of an era,” said Garrett, a civilian.

The militar y said the incineration program cost $11.5 billion in all, with the cost of tearing down the four facilities built in from the start.

A $2.8 billion incinerator is being demolished in Umatilla, Ore., the Pentagon said, and work will begin soon to tear down a $3.7 billion incinerator at Tooele, Utah. Workers already have finished demolishing the $2.2 billion Pine Bluf f Chemical Demilitarization Facility in Arkansas, the militar y said. The site is being cleaned up and will close officially While opponents of the incinerators predicted dire consequences and the possibility of floating clouds of ner ve gas in the event of an accident, the CDC said no nearby residents were exposed to or harmed by chemical agents.

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Broader lessons in reform on immigration

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MIAMI — The first year of the Obama administration’s temporary reprieve for youth living in the country illegally has shown that any broader immigration reform effort would require the government to better prepare by streamlining application procedures and by providing more information about what documents are needed to apply to stay in America, experts say.

Immigrant advocates say the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has worked relatively well. Still, many nonprofits and even some school districts reported serious growing pains as they stretched to accommodate the avalanche of requests related to the application process.

The youth program is open to immigrants between the ages of 15 and 32 who came to the U.S. before they turned 16 and live here illegally, haven’t left the country since June 2007 and have had no felonies or serious misdemeanors. They must also have a high school diploma or equivalency, or be currently enrolled in school. A total of about 1.7 million people could be eligible for the program.

The reprieve affects only a fraction of the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally who could be part of larger immigration reform legislation. However, because it’s the first major immigration change in many years, experts see it as a template for a more comprehensive, and no doubt more complicated, overhaul.

“DACA represents an important trial run for a larger legalization process, should one result from comprehensive immigration reform,” said Tom Wong, assistant professor of political science at the University California, San Diego, and one of several academics studying the program.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA hopes its newest Mars spacecraft lives up to its know-it-all name.

The robotic explorer called Maven is due to blast off Monday on a 10-month journey to the red planet. There, it will orbit Mars and study the atmosphere to try to understand how the planet morphed from warm and wet to cold and dry.

“A maven is a trusted expert,” noted NASA’s space science chief, John Grunsfeld. Maven will help scientists “build a story of the Mars atmosphere and help future human explorers who journey to Mars.”

The $671 million mission is NASA’s 21st crack at Earth’s most enticing neighbor, coming on the heels of the Curiosity rover, still rolling strong a year after its grand Martian arrival.

When Maven reaches Mars next September, it will join three functioning spacecraft, two U.S. and one European.

An Indian orbiter also will be arriving about the same time.

Maven will be the 10th orbiter to be launched to Mars by NASA; three have failed, testimony to the difficulty of the task.

“No other planet, other than perhaps Earth, has held the attention of people around the world than Mars,” Grunsfeld said.

Early Mars had an atmosphere thick enough to hold water and moist clouds, said chief investigator Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder. Indeed, water flowed once upon a time on Mars, and microbial life might have existed.

“But somehow that atmosphere changed over time to the cold, dry environment that we see today,” Jakosky said.

“What we don’t know is what the driver of that change has been.”

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Monday, November 18, 2013

Philippine president to camp in Tacloban

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TA C L O B A N , P h i l i p pines — President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday that he will stay in typhoonbattered Leyte province until he sees more progress in the aid effort following complaints from sur vivors that they have yet to receive proper help.

Aquino is expected to set up camp in Tacloban, the capital of hardest-hit Leyte province, but it is not clear where he will find suitable accommodations amid the ruins. Virtually every building in the city was damaged or destroyed by the Nov. 8 Typhoon Haiyan, which killed 3,974 people, according to the latest official count released Sunday.

The storm left about 1,200 people missing.

Electricity is available only in small pockets through diesel generators.

There is no r unning water, and people must manage with water supplied by tankers. Many don’t even have that.

Speaking to repor ters during a visit to Tacloban, Aquino said that while there has been some progress in the aid ef for t, it is not enough. A massive effor t by the inter national community, which has donated aid and cash wor th more than $248 million, is beginning to show improvements on the ground.

“We really want to ease the burden of everybody as soon as possible. As long as I don’t see any more improvements, we’ll stay here,” Aquino said, referring to his official team.

Presidential spokesman Ricky Carandang said Aquino wanted to ensure that the distribution of relief goods goes on smoothly and power is restored soon in this city of 220,000 people.

This is not the first time

Aquino has taken a handson approach to a crisis.

When Muslim rebels occupied fishing villages outside Zamboanga in the south in September, he set up a camp in the regional militar y headquar ters in the city to oversee the offensive against the insurgents. The move won him wide praise.

Last month, the 53-yearold bachelor pr esident slept overnight in an army tent to reassure jittery residents of a central town that was devastated by a magnitude-7.3 earthquake.

E a r l i e r i n t h e d a y, thousands of Filipinos, many homeless and grieving, flocked to dozens of churches across the region for their first Sunday Mass since the typhoon. More than 80 percent of the 90 million people in the Philippines are Roman Catholic, a legacy of its histor y of Spanish colonial rule.

Some came to give thanks for sur viving. Others came to pray for the souls of the departed.

“Coming to Mass gives people hope that things will eventually get better,” said Marino Caintic.

One such ser vice was held by the Rev. Amadero Alvero at his half-destroyed Santo Nino church, a landmark of Tacloban.

“Despite what happened, we still believe in God,” he said. “The church may have been destroyed, but our faith is intact, as believers, as a people of God, our faith has not been destroyed.”

Sun shone for the first ser vice, but by the second, rain was falling through a gaping hole crisscrossed by wooden beams in the roof of the downtown church and landmark. Its windows were blown out, and winds snapped at a silver cross on top of its steeple, which hangs upside down.

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After a turbulent month, Como looks to students The community wants to move forward with more students on board.

BY ALEX BITTER abitter@mndaily.com

Southeast Como has been “blindsided” recently, but the community’s president said neighborhood officials are working to get more University of Minnesota students involved in the area than ever.

During her annual “State of Como” speech Wednesday, Southeast Como Improvement Association President Wendy Menken said Como was caught of f guard by a string of unfor tunate events. In the past month, a University student was allegedly sexually assaulted near Van Cleve Park, Marcy Open School was nearly relocated, and chemical vapors from a former General Mills plant seeped into nearby residences.

“We just had one thing after another,” she said. “I hope Murphy’s Law is done with us for a while.”

Men k en s a i d b et t er communication could have softened the blow of the pr oposed Mar cy Open School relocation and concerns about chemical vapors.

In both cases, SECIA and community members were some of the last to find out about the issue, she said.

“The [school] district came up with an idea and never talked to us, and the [vapor issue] was suddenly announced, and it was on TV before neighbors knew about it,” she said.

Menken said she hopes the authorities involved in urgent issues will communicate more directly with Como residents and the neighborhood organization

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Rep. Diane Loeffler, DFL-Minneapolis, speaks at the Southeast Como Improvement Association’s annual meeting Wednesday. The meeting focused on public safety issues.

in the future.

“Cer tainly, the hope is to get back into much more of a proactive mode rather than a reactive mode,” she said.

“We just had one thing after another. … I hope Murphy’s Law is done with us for a while.”

WENDY MENKEN Southeast Como Improvement Association president

But other problems, like the alleged sexual assault Oct. 27, are harder to prevent, Menken said.

While she praised the neighbor hood’s ef for ts in the aftermath of the assault, which included a public meeting featuring an expert from the University’s Aurora Center, Menken said crime is often outside of the neighborhood’s control.

“That’s an outside variable that just happens and goes in cycles,” she said.

S eco n d Pr eci n ct I nspector Katherine Waite, who oversees Como for the Minneapolis Police Depar tment, said communicating with students will help prevent future incidents.

“Educating people who aren’t here for a long period of time becomes a challenge for us,” she said.

Minneapolis police are working with SECIA and the University to encourage students to take more responsibility for community safety.

Few to no students attended Wednesday’s meeting.

Menken said SECIA has gotten students more involved during the last five years, offering internship and volunteer oppor tunities for University students at its of fice and through its community gardening program.

“The students in our neighborhood bring an incredible amount of energy and interest,” she said. “We’re never trying to shove the student body out of the neighborhood.”

Menken said more students than long-term residents are volunteering for the neighborhood’s environmental and gardening programs.

Bill Dane, a University Student Legal Ser vices attorney who ser ves on the University District Alliance, said his organization has helped place many students in volunteer positions in Como. He said many students get work experience from Como’s active Environment Committee.

“We probably utilize more student volunteers in Como than any other neighborhood,” he said.

Menken said she wished she could have highlighted student involvement more in her speech Wednesday, but events of the last few weeks took precedence.

“At the ‘State of Como,’ you tr y to focus on the positives and moving forward,” she said. “We’ve got a few things we’re struggling with, but we’re looking to get some balance back.”

City Council incumbents talk future plans after losing seats Council u from Page 1

upcoming terms.

Tuthill declined an interview through a spokesperson.

Candidates could only run for one city of fice in the election, a r ule that led Samuels to give up his council seat in a bid for mayor.

“I think the oppor tunities that come with the mayor’s of fice were significant enough that it was wor th risking that seat,” said Samuels, who has represented Ward 5 since 2003.

“I think I’ve done enough there to hand the reins over to someone else.”

In a pool of 35 mayoral candidates, Samuels received the third-most votes, trailing mayor-elect and fellow council member Betsy Hodges as well as Mark Andrew, who conceded.

Minneapolis attor ney Blong Yang will take Samuels’ seat, joining seven freshman members on the 13-spot council.

Samuels said he plans to meet with Yang in the coming weeks to share information about projects he’s led and outline his priorities for the ward, which encompasses seven northeast Minneapolis neighborhoods.

Though he’s leaving the position, making an impact on the ward will always be important, Samuels said.

He has no plans now to r un for another political of fice, he said, and he is unsure about what he’ll do specifically once his term expires.

“I am open to just about anything that will allow me to make a contribution to the community,” Samuels said.

Diane Hofstede, who has represented the ward that includes parts of the University of Minnesota, MarcyHolmes, Dinkytown and downtown since 2006, also

said she plans to stay active in her area.

“I know I’m going to be engaged in the community, I’m ver y interested in public policy, but I have a wide variety of interests,” she said.

Hofstede’s successor, Jacob Frey, secured the Ward 3 spot with more than 60 percent of firstchoice votes. He outraised Hofstede’s campaign contributions by nearly $50,000.

While ser ving on the City Council, Hofstede suppor ted the V ikings stadium deal, the Nicollet Avenue streetcar proposal and the failed moratorium on Dinkytown development in August.

City Council Vice President Robert Lilligren, who has been on the City Council since 2001, said initiatives to increase city investments in alternative transpor tation, like biking and walking facilities, are his most notable achievements.

“T ranspor tation has been a huge focus of my work,” he said, “especially alternative transit.”

Incoming City Council member Abdi Warsame will replace Lilligren and be the first Somali-American to serve on the City Council.

Lilligren said he plans to work with city officials and future council members during his last months to make sure issues and files from projects are in place for the leadership transition.

This year, the sixth ward under went redistricting.

Lilligren said only about half of the area he has represented exists in the new Ward 6.

“Part of my primar y responsibility is making sure we set up the new council to be successful when the shape of the wards has changed so much,” he said.

Lilligren said he’s proud of the culture he helped facilitate at City Hall.

“We have been tremendously cordial and collegial

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Don Samuels speaks to supporters on election night at the Smack Shack in Minneapolis.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Minneapolis City Council Ward 3 incumbent Diane Hofstede speaks to her party guests on election night about her loss to Jacob Frey and what’s next for her in northeast Minneapolis.

in our deliberations and debate on City Council in my 12 years,” he said. “It hasn’t always been this way.”

After his term, Lilligren said, he will work with nonprofit and advocacy groups as he did before. He said he hopes to return to his philanthropic work, which includes transportation and environmental and food justice.

“I feel like I have lots of options — certainly more options than I had when I came into of fice 12 years ago,” Lilligren said. “Not all elected officials can say that when they leave office.”

Meg Tuthill has represented Ward 10 since 2010, but she lost to former San Francisco city planner Lisa Bender, who secured nearly

64 percent of first-choice votes.

Bender outraised Tuthill by more than $2,000 throughout her campaign to represent the southeast Minneapolis ward, reporting almost $53,000 in contributions.

A spokeswoman from the City Councilwoman’s office said Tuthill currently has no plans after leaving office.

With their final chapters on the City Council ending, the outgoing members all agreed it’s too early to tell what their next steps will be — returning to political of fice may be an option.

“One never knows what the future may bring,” Hofstede said.

LOSING INCUMBENTS WARD 3

WARD 6

Diane Hofstede

Robert Lilligren

Winning opponent: Jacob Frey

Winning opponent: Abdi Warsame

WARD 10

MAYORAL

Meg Tuthill

WARD 5 Don Samuels

27%

32%

61%

64%

30%

(chose to run in the mayoral race instead of City Council)

Winning opponent: Lisa Bender

11%

64%

Other candidates

89%

*All percentages are of first-choice votes.

SOURCE: MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE

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Monday, November 18, 2013

Both sides await decision in Brenny trial Attorneys gave closing statements Friday; a verdict could take months.

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

Katie Brenny traveled more than 1,000 miles to take a “dream job” at the University of Minnesota under former Director of Golf John Harris, one of her attorneys said Friday.

But Brenny resigned in October 2010, less than two months after becoming associate head coach for the women’s golf team.

She sued the University’s Board of Regents for discrimination, claiming Harris restricted her coaching duties after learning she is a lesbian.

Both sides made closing arguments Friday before Hennepin County District Judge Thomas Sipkins, who might not rule on the case for months.

The University said Har ris simply had problems with Brenny’s performance and didn’t know her sexual orientation until she filed suit.

“It may be that Harris is a poor communicator … or that the student players didn’t like him,” said University Associate General Counsel Brent Benr ud, “but whether or not he was a good coach does not mean he was a discriminator or a bigot or a homophobe.”

In a complaint filed in Hennepin County District

Court, Brenny alleged Harris didn’t allow her to do the work she was hired for. Instead, she said, he had her escort several men’s team recruits and type up team schedules, and he told her he didn’t want her to meet with the women’s team.

Brenny was dissatisfied with her position because she understood coaching from a former player’s perspective, Benrud said, and she thought she would mostly travel and teach.

“The fact is, the plaintiff never gave the job a chance.”

BRENT BENRUD University Associate General Counsel

Har ris allegedly kept Br enny fr om traveling with, meeting with and instructing the team. He delegated most of those tasks to Ernie Rose, his son-inlaw and then-director of instruction.

Arlene Vernon, a human resources consultant hired

by Brenny’s attor neys, testified Wednesday that Brenny lost some coaching duties when she instructed a player after Harris told her not to.

Benrud said Harris had told all the golf coaches not to instruct players until the winter. The fall season, Benr ud said, was for observing the players’ styles.

“I recognize that the concept of a golf coach not providing instruction

Citizens go on strike after militia violence

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRIPOLI, Libya — Residents of the Libyan capital launched a general strike Sunday, demanding the city’s myriad of powerful militias be disbanded after violence in which nearly 50 people were killed over the weekend.

Except for several protests, streets were deserted as the vast majority of Tripoli’s businesses and schools were closed, with bakeries, pharmacies, hospitals and gas stations the main exception.

The head of the city council, Al-Sadat al-Badri, said the strike is to last three days.

Fearing renewed violence, armed residents have set up checkpoints to protect their neighborhoods. In a sign of the continued lawlessness, a security official said the deputy of the intelligence chief was abducted as he left the city’s airport.

It was not clear who abducted Mustafa Nouh, whose family is from Misrata, the city from which many of the powerful militias in Tripoli originate.

Residents are seething with anger over the violence that erupted Friday, when thousands of protesters marched on a neighborhood controlled by a number of powerful Misrata militias, prompting some militiamen to open fire, killing 43. A day later, another militia attempted to overtake a military base, clashing with government forces in violence that left four killed.

On Sunday, nearly a hundred protesters entered the parliament building while lawmakers were in session, demanding legislation to disband the militias and forcing the session to break up.

Lawmaker Fatma al-Misbari said the interim parliament was under strong pressure, but it did not specify from whom.

“There is no consensus.

There is pressure on the council and the gover nment,” she said at the parliament building.

Libya’s militias originated in the “revolutionary” brigades that fought against the forces of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. Since his ouster and death, they have refused to disarm and have grown in

size and power. Many have been enlisted by the state to serve as security forces, since the army and police are weak, underequipped and underpaid. But many continue to act as armed vigilante factions with their own interests, sometimes turning political feuds into armed conflict.

Too weak to disarm the militias, the military, police and government have tried to co-opt them, paying them to play security roles like guarding districts, facilities, even polling stations during elections. But the policy has backfired, empowering the militias without controlling them.

At the parliament, the protesters were carrying a coffin draped in Libya’s postGadhafi flag, and held posters declaring those killed in the recent violence as “martyrs of dignity.”

Speaking to Libya’s AlAhrar TV, protester Ali Azouz said the protesters had entered the building to demand legislators order the disbanding of militias and chasing them out of Tripoli.

“We were revolutionaries since (the start of the 2011 uprising) but when we were asked to hand back our weapons we did so and went back to work,” he said, denouncing the existence of rampant armed groups.

Libya’s state news agency LANA said Sunday the Misrata militias accused of being responsible for Friday’s killings in the southern Tripoli neighborhood of Gharghour had abandoned its headquarters there. The group had turned villas and residential compounds of former Gadhafiera officials there into camps where they stash weapons.

It is not clear where the militia went.

A government-affiliated militia, the Libya Shield-Central Command, announced late Saturday that it took control of Gharghour, declaring it a military zone and vowing to turn it over to the government. The majority of Libya Shield’s militiamen also hail from Misrata.

Militias from Misrata have a powerful presence in Tripoli.

Many Tripoli residents also marched in protest against Libya Shield’s takeover of the Gharghour neighborhood.

to golfers is a hard one to grasp,” Benrud said.

In the complaint, Brenny claims the University changed her job description after she complained that Har ris curbed her responsibilities while allowing John Carlson, thenassociate head coach for the men’s team, to carry on without any changes.

In a repor t presented Wednesday, Vernon called the restrictions a “demotion,” saying Brenny had been stripped of all coaching responsibilities.

Carlson car ried out many of the same administrative and typing tasks Brenny had bristled under, Benrud said, because they come with any coaching position.

Carlson’s duties also didn’t include instructing players, Carlson testified Wednesday. Carlson now ser ves as the head men’s coach.

Liz Eull, University deputy chief of staff for policy and initiatives, testified Thursday that she thought Brenny’s duties were similar to other University coaches’.

Carlson’s relationship with Harris was “uncomfortable” and Harris was a bad communicator, Carlson testified Wednesday.

Vernon said a midyear evaluation of Harris found serious issues with his performance. Vernon said she was surprised the University didn’t discipline Harris.

The complaint alleges the University of fered to transfer Brenny to a TCF Bank Stadium sales posi-

tion outside the golf program after she brought her concerns to former athletics director Joel Maturi.

A question of timing Attorneys for both sides disagreed over when Harris discovered Brenny’s sexual orientation.

Donald Chance Mark Jr., who is representing Brenny, said Rose learned Brenny is a lesbian after the University hired her but before she came to campus. He told Har ris, Mark said, which is why Harris’ demeanor toward Brenny changed so rapidly.

But many witnesses painted Har ris as a man focused almost entirely on golf, Benrud said.

“He was not a person who socialized or engaged in idle chitchat.”

Benr ud ar gued that most of the communication between Har ris and his son-in-law would have been about golf and that Brenny’s sexuality never would have come up.

He also said Rose lear ned about Brenny’s sexual orientation later than her attorneys claimed he did.

The prosecution claimed Harris told others he wouldn’t allow Brenny to stay with players during team travel after he discovered her sexual orientation.

Harris also told Brenny to keep away from the seniors on the team and instead focus on the freshmen, the complaint said.

He told her she could

talk to them about “boys, life and school” but not about golf instruction, according to the complaint.

Benrud said Harris did not know Brenny was a lesbian when he added her to a short list of candidates for the associate head coach position. But he did know the other woman on the list was a lesbian, Benrud said.

Had Harris been prejudiced against lesbians, he would never have considered one for the job, Benrud said.

“Nobody’s going to question John Harris. They’re going to question Katie Brenny.”

DONALD CHANCE MARK JR. Brenny’s attorney

Eull testified Thursday that Harris told her he was unhappy with Brenny’s per formance in her first two weeks on the job. He said the University wanted to fire Brenny.

But Harris’ complaints about Brenny’s work were excuses to get rid of her because of her sexual orientation, Mark said.

Benr ud said Br enny decided the job wasn’t for her shor tly after she star ted. She testified that she had already begun looking for a new job before her job description changed.

“The fact is, plain-

tif f never gave the job a chance,” Benrud said.

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After she resigned and returned to North Carolina, Brenny went months without socializing, Mark said.

After Brenny’s partner urged her to get out of the house, the former coach volunteered at a food shelf, partly because nobody would recognize her there, Mark said.

Mark said Brenny volunteered for a junior golf program in North Carolina and her supervisor gave her glowing reviews.

But if Brenny ever applies for another collegiate golf position, she’ll have to explain why she spent less than two months at Minnesota, Mark said.

“Nobody’s going to question John Harris,” he said.

“They’re going to question Katie Brenny.”

Mark said the University owes Brenny about $215,000 in compensator y damages plus damages for her suffering. He also said the University should have to pay punitive damages.

Brenny’s attorney said it’s “disheartening” that the alleged discrimination occurred at the University, an institution with a mission statement that includes an atmosphere of mutual respect free from prejudice.

Benrud said Brenny told University employees about her problems communicating with Harris and understanding her role as associate head coach. She didn’t bring up discrimination in those discussions, Benrud said.

Boeing plane crashes in Russia, 50 killed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW — A Boeing 737 jetliner crashed and burst into flames Sunday night while tr ying to land at the airpor t in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people aboard in the latest in a string of deadly crashes across the country.

The Tatarstan Airlines plane was tr ying to make a second landing attempt when it touched the surface of the r unway near the control tower, and was “destr oyed and caught fire,” said Sergei Izvolky, the spokesman for the Russian aviation agency.

The Emergencies Ministr y said there were 44 passengers and six crew members aboard the evening flight from Moscow and all had been killed.

Kazan, a city of about 1.1 million and the capital of the Tatarstan republic, is about 450 miles east of the capital.

The ministr y released

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Minnesota r emained third in the nation for the number of students studying abroad for credit, despite a slight decrease in the 2011-12 school year.

Lear ning Abroad assistant dean Martha Johnson said when including non-credit ear ning trips, the University has actually seen growth in lear ning abroad participation since 2011.

More than a decade ago, the University set a goal to have more than half its students travel abroad in some fashion before graduating, Johnson said.

Johnson said at that time, only about 10 percent of students went abroad for any reason before graduating. She said that number has grown now.

To encourage participation, the University offered more trips that would satisfy liberal education requirements and major-specific coursework.

Political science sophomor e Austen Wygocki plans to study abroad with a University-sponsored program in France. Wygocki said she wanted to find a program that would fulfill requirements for both her major and minor.

a list of the dead, which included Irek Minnikhanov, the son of Tatarstan’s governor, and Alexander Antonov, who headed the Tatarstan branch of the Federal Security Ser vice, the main successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB. Some Russian air crashes have been blamed on the use of aging aircraft, but industr y exper ts point to a number of other problems, including poor crew training, cr umbling airpor ts, lax government controls and widespread neglect of safety in the pursuit of profits.

The Emergencies Ministry released photographs from the nighttime scene showing par ts of the aircraft and debris scattered across the ground. Ambulances lined up in front of the airport building.

It was not clear why the plane’s first landing attempt was unsuccessful.

Boeing said it would provide assistance to the in-

“I want to graduate in four years, so I want a program that won’t stall my graduation plan,” she said.

Wygocki said she’ll be able to fulfill her French minor requirements and take political science courses at a University-par tnered school in Montpellier, France.

Finance senior Nate Kado, who completed a study abroad program in France, said the trip gave him a new cultural perspective and an opportunity to learn French and fulfill courses in his major.

Kado said all five courses he completed while abroad transferred back to the University.

Johnson said the University has concentrated on expanding existing programs rather than creating many new ones. To expand programs in other countries, Johnson said the Learning Abroad Center reaches out to alumni and possible donors.

In the 2011-12 school year, the University was able to award scholarships for studying abroad to only about one-third of students who applied. But despite the high sticker price, Wygocki said students should tr y to study abroad if they can.

“People that I’ve talked to who’ve graduated … said that their one regret for college was not doing study

vestigation into the cause.

“Boeing’s thoughts are with those affected by the crash,” the company said in a statement on its website.

A jour nalist who said she had flown on the same aircraft from Kazan to Moscow’s Domodedovo airpor t earlier in the day told Channel One state television that the landing in Moscow had been frightening because of a strong vibration during the final minutes of the flight.

“When we were landing it was not clear whether there was a strong wind, although in Moscow the weather was fine, or some kind of technical trouble or problem with the flight,” said Lenara Kashafutdinova. “We were blown in different directions, the plane was tossed around.

The man sitting next to me was white as a sheet.”

Tatarstan is one of the wealthier regions of Russia because of its large de-

posits of oil. It is also is a major manufacturing center, producing trucks, helicopters and planes. About half of the people who live in the republic are ethnic Tatars, most of whom are Muslims.

Russia’s last fatal airliner crash was in December, when a Russian-made Tupolev belonging to Red Wings airline careered off the r unway at Moscow’s Vnukovo airpor t, rolled across a snowy field and slammed into the slope of a nearby highway, breaking into pieces and catching fire. Investigators say equipment failure caused the crash, which killed five people.

A 2011 crash in Yaroslavl that killed 44 people including a professional hockey team was blamed on pilot error. And Russian investigators found that the pilots in two crashes that killed 10 and 47 people in recent years were intoxicated.

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abroad,” she said.

Johnson said the Learning Abroad Center hopes to expand options to majors that previously didn’t have many study abroad options or ones in which students simply weren’t choosing to study abroad.

“We want it to be a viable and available option for everyone, and I think the hard message is to convince students that we do [include] them; that it isn’t students studying something else or with a dif ferent background,” she said.

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Syrians flee to Lebanon seeking refuge force their shelters against the cold. The U.N. refugee agency was also distributing blankets, mattresses, food, diapers and hygiene kits to the refugees.

The new refugees join an estimated 1.4 million Syrians — 800,000 of whom have registered — who have already found shelter in Lebanon, according to Lebanese of ficials.

The massive influx has proven a burden for Lebanon, and has helped stoke the countr y’s already simmering sectarian tensions.

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cares about sleeves.”

Students, faculty and staf f have challenged the recreation center’s dress code since its adoption in 1993, according to a URW document. But the URW Advisory Board, which has the final say in the dress code, has continued to support current policy.

Tony Brown, associate director for the Department of Recreational Spor ts, said URW developed the dress code based on what an “average person” would consider to be appropriate exercise attire.

“Almost ever yone has T-shirts,” he said. “It’s not a hardship.”

The dress code only applies to spaces where fitness equipment is available for open use. It doesn’t apply to areas like the University Aquatic Center or basketball courts, Brown said.

“People’s perceptions of what’s acceptable to wear varies from space to space,” he said. “There are different expectations in different settings.”

Olive Martin, MSA student outreach and engagement director and representative to the URW Advisory Board, said it might be time to for the board to discuss the issue again.

Until MSA’s poll, Martin said there hasn’t been any proof that students want the sleeve-length policy overturned.

“Now that we have this evidence that students really do think that they would be comfor table changing the policy, it’s definitely something worth advocating for,” she said.

Finance senior Aaron

Soller said it’s strange the URW makes sleeves mandator y while some private fitness clubs permit sleeveless shir ts. He said the URW should change the policy to be more consistent with other workout facilities.

“Basically any gym I’ve ever been to, you can wear whatever you want,” he said. “I don’t understand why that doesn’t apply to our own gym.”

Howard Taylor, director of Purdue University’s Division of Recreational Sports, said the school recently changed its dress code after years of a policy similar to the University of Minnesota’s.

Now, Purdue gym patrons can wear sleeveless shirts or tank tops that expose arms and shoulders while covering the rest of the torso.

Taylor said comments from users and conversations among Purdue’s recreational sports staff over the past few years prompted the change.

“We decided some of the things people were wanting to wear, like tank tops, could still be appropriate under certain circumstances,” he said. “For our campus, we felt it’s a fair policy.”

Even with the current policy, Taylor said some people still think Purdue’s policy is too restrictive and other schools around the countr y have similar issues.

“No matter what you come up with, someone is going to want to push that boundar y,” Taylor said.

“This is a debate that goes on across the countr y. …

Cer tain approaches don’t work for certain schools.”

The University’s dress code aims to create an environment that’s welcoming to the entire University population, said Director of University Recreation and

Wellness Jim Turman.

“If all we were dealing with was 18- to 22-year-olds, it might be dif ferent,” he said. “But we have a very diverse group of people at the University that we need to reach out to.”

Mar tin said MSA is drafting a position statement suppor ting a dress code change. If passed in a forum Dec. 3, she’ll present it to the URW Advisory Board.

“If changing the sleeve policy would make things better, I think [the Advisory Board] would be more than welcoming to the challenge,” she said.

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it will probably have to look a little different.”

West Bank Business Association Executive Director Jamie Schumacher said the loss of the pub crawl would be a blow to area businesses.

“I don’t know of any business that chooses to par ticipate that doesn’t benefit financially from it,” she said. “They’d be sad if it weren’t to happen on the West Bank.”

This year, about 25,000 par ticipants spor ted fake blood, marched from bar to bar and watched A Flock of Seagulls, Trick Daddy and Sublime with Rome perform.

The event has grown exponentially since its initial run in northeast Minneapolis, which drew 150 people.

ZPC ear ned a Guinness World Record for the Largest Gathering of Zombies in 2012, which the New Jersey Zombie Walk has since won back. About 30,000 fauxundead attended the ZPC that year.

Terhark said the main alter native would be a move to St. Paul, where ZPC had satellite locations in 2011 and 2012.

“We work really well with St. Paul, so we might consider doing that again,” he said. “Ever ything’s sor t of on the table right now. There’s a lot of unknowns.”

Corner Bar owner Bill Murray said the pub crawl

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JERUSALEM — V isiting Fr ench Pr esident Francois Hollande vowed to maintain his countr y’s tough stance in upcoming nuclear talks with Iran this week, earning praise from his Israeli hosts Sunday as he began a three-day visit to the Jewish state.

Israel has repeatedly voiced concer n that the emerging deal global powers are negotiating with Iran gives it too much, without guaranteeing that the Islamic Republic’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon is eliminated.

Hollande vowed to keep up pressure on Iran and not make any concessions regarding nuclear proliferation.

“If there hadn’t been sanctions, if they hadn’t been enforced, it’s clear that we would never even have had the words from Iran — and I don’t yet speak of actions — that we had in the last few weeks,” he said In a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We have a duty to resolve this problem that has been under discussions for too many years because Iran for too long has par ticipated in discussions without taking actions.”

Netanyahu has been outspoken in his opposition to a potential deal in which the inter national community would ease some sanctions on Iran in exchange for some curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.

The countries fear that Iran is tr ying to build a nuclear weapon, a charge Iran denies.

Speaking alongside Hollande, Netanyahu once again war ned that Iran could soon have enough fissile material to develop a bomb within weeks and that Israel would not be bound to what he called a “bad deal.” At the same time, he thanked Hollande for leading a tough stance that has blocked a deal thus far.

The warm atmosphere comes at a time when Israel increasingly finds itself at odds with its top ally, the United States, over the talks with Iran.

Netanyahu has tried to play down his dif ferences with the Obama administration as a disagreement between the “best of friends,” but he went out of his way to charm Hollande — peppering his remarks with French and embracing him often.

Hollande, accompanied by his companion Val erie Trier weiler, was welcomed by an honor guard at Ben-Gurion International Airpor t near Tel Aviv.

With trumpets playing in the background, a line of politicians, religious leaders and other dignitaries greeted the French leader.

Later, he visited Israel’s national cemeter y as well as Yad Vashem, the national Holocaust memorial, before a meeting and dinner with Netanyahu.

“Israel sees in France a true friend,” Netanyahu said at the ceremony.

Initially a strong ally of Israel, France was an early provider of weapons to the countr y and was instrumental in establishing Israel’s nuclear program.

But relations soured after the 1967 Mideast war,

when France imposed an arms embargo and began adopting more policies critical of Israel.

Many Israelis have traditionally viewed France as biased in favor of the Palestinians, and repor ts of rising anti-Semitism toward the French Jewish community — at 600,000 the third-largest in the world — has only fanned the flames.

Relations warmed significantly under Holl a n d e ’ s p r e d e c e s s o r, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Hollande’s tough stance on the Iranian nuclear program has made him popular with Israelis.

The six powers negotiating with Iran — the U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany — failed to reach an agreement earlier this month.

The U.S. has expressed optimism that an initial deal can be wrapped up at the next round of talks, providing a six-month period to reach a final agreement.

Netanyahu believes the sanctions seriously have weakened Iran and that providing any relief, even temporarily, will be lead to the crumbling of international pressure. He has urged the world to step up, not ease, the pressure on Iran until it completely dismantles what he says is a militar y nuclear program.

Netanyahu’s strong objections have raised tensions with the U.S., which said his concerns are premature.

Meanwhile, Hollande has struck a tone far more amenable to Israeli ears.

“The goal is that Iran renounces nuclear weapons forever,” he said Sunday. “We are against nuclear proliferation, and in Iran there has been a will — even once expressed — to enrich uranium to militar y capabilities.”

Israel views a nucleararmed Iran as a threat to its ver y existence, citing its repeated calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, Tehran’s long-range missile program and its suppor t for violent antiIsrael groups like the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Netanyahu has repeatedly denounced the potential agreement between the six powers and Iran and hinted at readiness to attack Iran if it appears close to getting a bomb, saying Israel is ready to “defend itself.”

Invoking the memor y of the Holocaust, Netanyahu said it was his obligation to prevent it from happening again.

“It is my duty to prevent anyone from credibly threatening or executing another Holocaust against the Jewish people,” he said.

“When someone says they are out to destroy you we have learned in our Jewish histor y to take them seriously.”

Netanyahu said the Iran talks would dominate discussions with Hollande, as well as meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit Jerusalem on Friday.

Newly restarted IsraeliPalestinian peace talks are also on the agenda and Hollande is to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday in the West Bank.

except the clothes on their backs,” said Dana Sleiman, who works for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

She said at least 1,000 Syrian families crossed into Lebanon over the weekend, but many had not yet registered with the U.N., so more precise figures weren’t available.

Sleiman said some of the new arrivals settled into tin shack slums that dot eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, and they were being offered thick plastic to rein-

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Since the heavy fighting in Qalamoun began Friday, some 10,000 Syrians have fled across the border to the Lebanese frontier town of Arsal, former Mayor Bassel Hojeiri said. He said the new arrivals have crammed into wedding halls and improvised shacks.

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battle for Qalamoun would deal a severe blow to the already beleaguered rebels on Damascus’ doorstep.

Despite the recent setbacks on the capital’s souther n peripher y, the opposition remains firmly entrenched in other areas around Damascus and capable of carr ying out large attacks. A massive explosion late Sunday targeting an administrative office in the nor theastern suburb of Harasta killed at least 31 gover nment troops, the Britain-based Syrian

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BEIRUT — Thousands of Syrians poured into Lebanon over the past two days, taking shelter in wedding halls and makeshift shacks after fleeing heavy fighting in a rugged mountain region across the border in western Syria, U.N. and local officials said Sunday.

The clashes in Qalamoun, an area that stretches from north of the Syrian capital along the Lebanese frontier, appeared to be

par t of a long-anticipated gover nment of fensive aimed at cutting a key rebel supply route and cementing President Bashar Assad’s hold on the strategic corridor from the capital to the coast.

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is one of his busiest nights of the year. He said he enjoys the event and would be surprised if it moved to the state capital.

“It would suck if it wasn’t here,” Murray said.

“That’d really be a bummer if they moved. It’s something you look forward to in the fall.”

Republic manager Sarah Meyer said the crawl always makes for a lucrative night, and she isn’t sure how its exit could affect her restaurant. Meyer said she doesn’t think it would hurt the restaurant’s bottom line too much overall.

“It’s just something that we’ve always had, so we don’t know what it would be like without it,” she said.

Accounting and international business junior Kelly Heikens took par t in her first zombie crawl this year and said she’d go again, even if it moved to St. Paul, though the drive could deter some students.

Junior accounting majors Adam Phillips and Quinn Jurgens will turn 21 in time for the next ZPC. They said they plan to show up wherever it’s held because they’ve heard such great things

about the event.

Phillips said he understands how a different location may annoy some, but he’s been looking for ward to par ticipating for some time.

“I can’t wait to impersonate a zombie,” he said.

There were rumors the crawl could be canceled next year, Terhark said, but the ZPC has enough fans to raise it from the dead.

“We have ever y intention of keeping it going, for sure,” Terhark said. “If we didn’t do it, I think there’d be an uproar, and people would still do it.”

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The news is no better for other Best Picture contenders. “All is Lost” has grossed about $4.2 million, and “Dallas Buyers Club” has taken in just more than $3 million.

The fact that “Gravity,” a technically mar velous film with an extremely tenuous story, and “Captain Philips,” a fine, predictable rehash, are both considered Oscar frontrunners is a testament to how weak this year has been for cinema.

More importantly, it’s proof of the ironic reality in which a film’s lasting worth is inversely related to its box-office revenue.

“Iron Man 3” leads the top 10 earners this year, a list devoid of any film that we will talk about in a decade or two. It’s no coincidence seven of those 10 films are sequels, prequels or

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system, nobody sees some of the most important artistic works of our time. We’re lucky enough to have people with cameras who care so little about financial well-being that they risk their livelihoods to produce important work.

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lockbuster “Thor: The Dark World” dominated the American box office last week, racking up a whopping $108.5 million. The second-place finisher, “Last Vegas,” finished at a paltry $22.4 million its opening week.

“12 Years a Slave,” the current Best Picture frontrunner still in its early weeks, finished even lower with about $9.5 million, its best week since opening in mid-October.

We’re in cinematic gridlock.

Studios are producing recycled big-budget blockbusters at a record pace. The filmmakers looking to craft their work, knowing they will lose money, now go unheard of.

I know that it’s unfair to compare the box office success of blockbusters to artful dramas — though that fact is, in itself, troubling — but “Thor: The Dark World” is no “Jaws.”

It’s no “Star Wars.” Maybe more appropriately, it’s no “The Empire Strikes Back.”

reboots.

As I wrote in September, contrasting the state of the film industry with television, where shows like “Breaking Bad,” and “Mad Men” reign supreme, paints this picture in an even more pathetic light.

One side of Hollywood produces banal garbage, and the other half is irrelevant.

It’s hard not to be frustrated with this system, which pushed the last decade’s best films out of focus.

In 2005, “The Weather Man” pulled in more than $19 million, and 2010’s “Never Let Me Go” came in at about $9.5 million. The 2008 urban masterpiece “The Wackness” grossed about $3.1 million worldwide.

So when I complain that my local theater is clogged with inconsequential films that everyone has seen dozens of times, I’m not just doing so because I am a picky moviegoer. While I certainly want daring filmmakers to receive credit and financial rewards for their work, their livelihoods are only a part of the anger that I feel toward the industry.

I complain because in this

THOR: THE DARK WORLD

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HIGHER ED

Financing America’s finest All states ought to grant in-state tuition waivers for veterans.

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Rep. Karen Clark, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Duluth Mayor Don Ness, all backed Hodges.

Many point out that Hodges was able to block the par ty’s endorsement of Andrew at the Minneapolis DFL city convention as a turning point in Minneapolis politics. But these same people fail to mention that Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who at the time was considered a political outsider, successfully used the same tactic in 2001 against DFL incumbent Sharon Sayles Belton.

In shor t, Hodges was an underdog, but to call her a political outsider, as many have attempted, is simply disingenuous.

If anything, the 2013 Minneapolis elections str engthened the Minneapolis DFL by bringing in many new and diverse faces into the caucus and convention process.

The endorsement process is not per fect.

Reforms need to create greater accessibility, transparency and accountability.

But ultimately, Minneapolis still has a DFL mayor and 12 DFL City Council members. To me this is not a sign of a catastrophic shift in municipal politics, but rather an indication of voter approval of the status quo.

n Ve t eran’s Day last week, we honored those who have served, but we must also combat the problems facing our nation’s finest.

LUIS RUUSKA One problem columnist veterans face is something that most students can relate to: finding a way to finance one’s education.

With the war in Iraq completed and the war in Afghanistan winding down, veterans are returning home, and 1 million of them have already enrolled in higher education over the past four years. This number will only continue to grow.

However, many veterans are finding their choices of out-of-state schools are limited due to high nonresident tuition, which has skyrocketed in recent years in many states.

Although the Post-9/11 GI Bill covers full tuition costs, the bill limits veterans to in-state public universities.

This may reduce some costs of the bill, but it also robs veterans of a choice that other students enjoy: choosing the best-fit college. Establishing residency in another state can take up to a year.

These high costs prevent many veterans from loaning their unique world perspectives and skills to universities outside of their own state.

However, many states have recognized this problem and are actively seeking to make higher education accessible to out-of-state veterans.

Twenty states, including Minnesota, have adopted laws providing student veterans with an in-state residency waiver to help cover the difference between in-state and outof-state tuition. Another 10 states currently have similar measures pending.

The University of Minnesota– Twin Cities adopted a non-resident tuition waiver for veterans that took effect in 2006. It allows the University to charge veterans resident tuition rates for their undergraduate degrees.

It bears repeating that veterans have put their lives on the line in defense of our freedom. Many of them for went post-secondar y education in pursuit of militar y ser vice. The very least we can do is make higher education affordable in order to ensure their transition to civilian life is a little easier, even if it is only financially.

Quentin Wathum-Ocama Vice President Minnesota Young DFL

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Death of DFL endorsement process exaggerated

Many will argue the election of Betsy Hodges as mayor-elect along with the election of the new faces to the Minneapolis City Council is the beginning of the end of the Minneapolis DFL “machine,” as its critics call it.

Individuals making such claims are misinformed or view this previous election through a ver y myopic lens.

In the aftermath of Election Day, many people began talking about a dramatic shift in the way party politics is conducted in Minneapolis. I would like to disagree and paint an alternative narrative.

This year DFL-endorsed candidates showed the par ty’s suppor t is still extremely impor tant to voters. The elections of Jacob Frey, Abdi Warsame and Lisa Bender should be proof the DFL endorsement process works and is valuable.

In each case, these individuals motivated many young, new and diverse people to engage in the DFL caucus and convention process. Each one was able to secure the DFL endorsement away from an entrenched incumbent. Each one was able to easily defeat their formerly endorsed rivals who decided not to abide by the endorsement process.

The process also proved impor tant in other key races. In Ward 12, DFL candidate Andrew Johnson was elected after he was able to organize through the caucus process and block the endorsement of incumbent and DFL candidate Sandy Colvin-Roy, which prompted her retirement from the Council.

In Ward 13, DFL-endorsed candidate Linea Palmisano was able to defeat DFL rival Matt Perr y, who decided not to abide by the endorsement postconvention.

In regard to the mayoral race, it’s tr ue that former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew outspent Hodges.

Several prominent unions backed Andrew, such as the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, but this nar rative fails to paint a truly active picture of the dynamic of the race.

Ser vice Employees International Union, one of the most active and motivated unions in Minnesota, endorsed Hodges.

Ta k e A c t i o n M i n n e s o t a and womenwinning, two of the strongest political organizations in the state, also backed Hodges.

Though many por tray the traditional DFL “establishment” as having suppor ted Andrew, the same people fail to mention that many DFL elected of ficials, including state Sen. Scott Dibble, state

The Daily only publishes suspect descriptions when they are specific and practical.

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any Minnesota Daily readers have asked about the Daily’s policy for publishing police descriptions of criminal suspects.

Several robberies on or near campus this semester prompted questions, and they ramped up after an armed man was reported in Anderson Hall last Monday.

The Daily’s policy for years has been to only publish descriptions of criminal suspects when they’re useful in identifying the suspect or better understanding the crime. Many police descriptions only detail the suspect’s gender and race, occasionally including clothing or age.

These vague descriptors alone don’t add to the story, nor do they aid in identifying a suspect. If descriptions aren’t specific and don’t serve a practical purpose, they can merely propagate hearsay or harmful stereotypes.

This policy extends to photographs, as well.

Neither of the two photos published by University police show much useful detail, and the first suspect was quickly cleared of any wrongdoing. University police Chief Greg Hestness told the Daily last week that descriptions of the Anderson Hall suspect were “very common,” making it difficult to identify the suspect.

This doesn’t mean the Daily never publishes suspect descriptions. The Daily has reported when recent robberies on or near campus were committed by a group of men rather than an individual.

When a student was reportedly attacked in Como last month, police described the suspect as a man in his 30s, which the Daily reported because that age range indicated the man was likely not a student.

The Daily strives to better inform the University community through accurate, transparent and fair reporting. The Daily’s policy on suspect descriptions is in service of that goal.

Editor-in-chief Tony Wagner welcomes comments at awagner1@mndaily.com.

Social media in admissions Colleges must establish clear guidelines regarding social media and application decisions.

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ore college admissions officers may be looking at applicants’ social media profiles, the New York Times reported earlier this

month.

According to the Nov. 9 article, new research from Kaplan Test Prep suggests that online inspection of potential college students is growing. Christine Brown, executive director of K-12 and college prep programs at Kaplan Test Prep, told the Times that including social media activity in the admissions process “is becoming more ubiquitous and less looked down upon.”

A Kaplan telephone questionnaire this year found that 31 percent of college admissions officers said they visited an applicant’s social media account to learn about them — a 5-point increase from last year.

As social media use continues to grow, it seems inevitable that more colleges will take the profiles, posts and even photos of applicants available online into account.

The use of social media profiles in a formal decision-making process should concern everyone — even those who are careful with what they put online. Mistaken identity or false information can result in unfair decisions. Information regarding political or other affiliations may change an officer’s mind about an applicant, even without him or her realizing it. Even more troublesome, keeping information like race or religion private may no longer be possible.

Important questions must be answered before colleges begin denying applicants based on social media activity. Will social media profiles play a formal role in the decision process? If so, what specific criteria will be used to judge an applicant’s profile?

And will that criteria be made public?

To ensure a fair admissions process, colleges should get ahead of this trend and establish clear polices now.

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Baldwin learns a lesson in language Hateful speech brings us all down.

TRENT M. KAYS columnist

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s a child, one of my favorite movies was “Beetlejuice.” The recently deceased Adam Maitland, played by Alec Baldwin, was my favorite character.

There aren’t many Baldwin films where I don’t like his acting or character.

However, my love of the characters Baldwin plays and the real-life Baldwin often collide.

TMZ posted a video last Thursday of Baldwin calling a photographer a sexual and homophobic slur. The video caused a controversy and even caused MSNBC on Friday to suspend Baldwin’s late-night talk show.

This isn’t the first time Baldwin has spoken before thinking. He called his daughter a “thoughtless little pig.” He called a Daily Mail writer a “toxic little queen” and a “little bitch.” Sadly, I could go on. Baldwin seems to have a problem with properly expressing himself.

I’m not famous like Baldwin, and I haven’t had the luxur y of his life. I can’t necessarily understand the reason for his behavior, but it’s unacceptable. Baldwin is a public figure and has been a phenomenal actor for a long time.

This is a testament to the power of language, and perhaps this is part of the problem. Those who understand the hurtful nature of slurs are reluctant to drop down to the level of those who do use them.

Though his critics may not know it, Baldwin even suppor ts gay causes, so I find it perplexing that his seemingly go-to insults are ones dripping with hate.

Baldwin is a glaring contradiction, walking the walk but clearly not talking the talk. Not all people are contradictions, as some people just hate gays. That’s it.

They hate gay people and use homophobic slurs to take power away from people.

I don’t think Baldwin actually hates gay people. Anyone who has seen his acting and understands his activism should know that such an accusation would be silly. However, I do think Baldwin misinterprets the power of some homophobic slurs.

Words have power, and when used, they elicit reaction. If Baldwin is using these words without thinking, then this is a problem. If you’re using a word as an

insult, then you need to step back and examine the meaning of the word.

For example, there are many who use the word “slut” as an insult for promiscuity, certain clothing styles or other female sexuality issues. Rarely do you hear the word used to describe men in such an insulting manner. Instead, you might hear a homophobic slur used to degrade supposedly feminine or gay men.

This is dishear tening. The pejorative use of these words is meant to hurt, to verbally stab one’s opponent simply because they are different.

Unfor tunately, nothing will change as long as we allow people to continue to hurl slurs to advance agendas. In the same time little monsters adore gay icon Lady Gaga, fans adore Christian media mogul Pat Rober tson. This is the same Pat Rober tson who advised a man to move to Saudi Arabia so he could beat his rebellious wife.

The extremes of our time are insane.

Still, people hear homophobic slurs thrown around and don’t do anything about it.

Baldwin apologized only after activist organization GLAAD told him he had used a term for oral sex that’s insulting to the LGBT community. Baldwin certainly isn’t Lady Gaga or Robertson, but he is a high-profile figure. It concerns me that he didn’t know such a word could be used as an insult.

How is it that people don’t know some words are used as slurs? “Slut” and “fag” are slurs or can be used as slurs. Yet, the way these slurs so easily roll of f the tongues of some bigots is shocking. When I’ve had to use these terms in academic discussions, I feel uncomfortable. I’m not using them in derogator y ways; I’m using them to discuss the power of words. I’m still uncomfortable.

This is a testament to the power of language, and perhaps this is part of the problem. Those who understand the hurtful nature of slurs are reluctant to drop down to the level of those who do use them.

Baldwin blames his anger and rage on the media and paparazzi that continue to follow him and his family. He further suggests he never used them in a homophobic way. This event even spurred Baldwin to threaten to leave his acting career behind for his family’s sake.

Sacrificing one’s career to take care of family is a noble ideal. Though it would be nobler if Baldwin weren’t already a successful and wealthy actor. His sacrifice would be a hollow one, and it detracts from the real problem: Baldwin’s inability to control himself.

I don’t know what it’s like for paparazzi to hound me. I assume it’s irritating, but an irritation is not an excuse to use language normally used to disparage an entire group of people. It’s not an excuse to assault photographers, and it’s not an excuse to use derogator y remarks against the media. Baldwin should know better.

Of course, if Baldwin should know better, then we should know better, too. Baldwin needs encouragement and support to change. This problem is bigger than Baldwin, but his case could affect others.

We need to change the culture this happens in. Otherwise, individual change will be for naught. These slurs shouldn’t be acceptable language anymore.

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SAFETY

To catch a criminal Stopping crime will be harder than it sounds.

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t seems University of Minnesota police send a new crime alert story every week, each with strange and terrifying tales of the gunmen, prowlers or thieves.

The chill we get from reading these alerts is exciting. Will the University police feature us in next week’s installment? Well, the answer is likely “no.”

People tend to be irrationally afraid of what they see. If you watch “Jaws,” you’ll worry about sharks. After 9/11, many Americans believed they would be killed in a terrorist attack.

In reality, you’re four times more likely to be a struck by lightning than be a victim of terrorism.

Despite all the crime alerts we read, your risk of being a victim of a violent crime while at the University is very low.

In October, there were 12 and 66 crimes reported in the University of Minnesota and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods, respectively.

This is very troubling until you realize a disproportionately high number of these crimes are nonviolent — specifically, they’re larceny.

If you simply consider the number of reported crimes, the drunken guest who stole your phone at your party last weekend is equivalent to a murderer. Last month, nine of the University’s 12 reported crimes — and 52 of MarcyHolmes’ 66 — were larceny.

Let’s be generous and say that 10 out of the University’s 51,853 students were victims of a violent crime on or near campus last month.

Minneapolis police statistics show MarcyHolmes, Como, Prospect Park and the University averaged about 10 violent crimes per month so far this year. However, it’s possible one crime could affect multiple people, including non-students.

Let’s go further and say every student stands an equal chance of being a victim and crime levels are the same as they were this year. In a worst-case scenario, this means each student has a 10 in 51,853 chance of being involved in a crime on or near campus. That’s about .02 percent. Don’t get me wrong — recent crimes are upsetting. It’s crucial to manage crime, but what’s our plan?

University President Eric Kaler emailed students in the University community last week, promising to expand police patrols, install more security cameras on campus and “monitor and control openness of buildings.”

In the email, Kaler said these measures are

intended to deter crime and enhance safety.

However, they probably won’t be as effective as we’d hope.

First, additional police patrols must come from somewhere. Are Minneapolis police officers going to be redirected toward the University campus — statistically one of the safer regions of the city — and away from areas that may need them more? Or are University police merely going to, as Kaler said, increase foot and bicycle patrols? These patrols lack the intimidation of a police car.

Second, installing more cameras on campus is unnecessary. Again, this is one of the safest places in the city. To be more effective, new cameras should be installed in MarcyHolmes. Besides, if you’re the type of person who has decided to attempt an armed robbery on campus in broad daylight, you’re probably not worried about cameras.

Furthermore, cameras won’t deter crime unless potential criminals know they exist.

Unless most criminals are on Kaler’s mailing list, they won’t know about any new security measures. Even if more police caught more criminals due to extra cameras, it wouldn’t necessarily thwart crime from occurring.

Third, the idea of restricting access to campus buildings is laughable. Most likely, the new measures would make a U Card necessary to access any building. For example, access to most dorms is already restricted to residents, but it’s about as hard to break into a dorm as it is to get into a box of cereal.

Would the University restrict access to every building? What about Coffman Union, which attracts plenty of non-students? What about the Fairview Medical Center? If the University restricts entry to these buildings, it would be easy to use the tunnels to access other buildings.

We mustn’t let the need to act outweigh the need to think. The most visible forms of response aren’t always the most effective.

Furthermore, they’re often economically and civilly costly. Ultimately, true prevention may require resources beyond the University’s command.

I recognize that something needs to change. I just hope that as a learning institution, we can concoct a more stable solution to the question of crime, however overblown it may be.

Brian Reinken welcomes comments at breinken@mndaily.com.

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CITY PLANNING

Time to change Minneapolis zoning codes Although the topic can be complex, zoning codes are important and need to be modernized.

CHRIS IVERSON columnist

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he word “zoning” conjures images of long-winded meetings and jargonfilled laws. TV shows like “Family Guy” and “Parks & Recreation” have even made fun of zoning’s tedious stereotype. We have these images, but have you ever actually been to a neighborhood zoning meeting?

Yes, zoning may be boring to many, but it’s extremely important policy. The reason that any building exists is based on an underlying zoning code. Unfortunately, it’s also the reason there is an old house right next to The Chateau, a massive 1970s-style building in Dinkytown.

Minneapolis uses a traditional single-use zoning code, where an underlying policy occupies an entire plot. For example, an apartment building housing 10 people would normally be situated on a plot zoned for multi-family housing. The building could not be built on land zoned for single-family housing, retail or industrial uses.

Single-use zoning has been used for nearly a century. The first zoning codes were applied to dirty, crowded cities. Single-use zoning helped prevent overcrowding. Growing cities use the policy best because it balances effectiveness and practicality.

However, current zoning codes in Minneapolis and other cities are proving to be outdated, overly bureaucratic and, in some cases, not useful at all.

In a dense, urban, walkable, 21st-century city, zoning restrains smart growth. Singleuse zoning has unnecessarily large parking requirements, strict setbacks from sidewalks and other nitpicky standards. In order to build a smart city, officials need to change these policies.

Enter the code of the future: form-based zoning.

Form-based code differs from single-use code in that it focuses more on enhancing the urban form than abiding by land-use laws. Officials have adopted form-based zoning codes in several key neighborhood nodes around the country.

To put it in simple terms, think back to your days playing “SimCity.”

The game employs single-use zoning as its main development tool. The game allows

players to lay colored squares over land resembling residential, commercial and industrial uses. This usually results in some areas hosting a tall office building next to a car dealership. If the game used form-based code, the player would be able to place some type of building over a plot rather than assigning a color (zoning) to it. Eventually, when the market would have demand for a certain use, that type of building would pop up. This would allow for dense downtown areas to be built more predictably without random gas stations and restaurants.

Form-based code essentially creates a win-win situation for developers and city officials that want build to a certain aesthetic.

By creating an area’s form based on how the building looks rather than height or population density, developers are more likely to create a plan that abides by the policy. This saves time and money for both the plan-creating developer and the plan-reviewing city official.

This type of zoning has been successful in certain locations around the country, including Denver, San Francisco and Arlington, Va. In Denver, zoning change requests decreased from 55 to 13 between 2009 and 2010 due to their new form-based zoning codes.

The notion is gaining traction in Minneapolis. Mayoral candidate Cam Winton mentioned form-based code during his campaign. Some local advocates used formbased zoning in arguing for city planning strategies.

In the local realm, form-based code could

allow Dinkytown to grow effectively.

The controversy over Venue at Dinkytown, the apartment under construction where House of Hanson once stood, is rooted to conflicts over zoning changes. In order to build the mixed-use project, developer Opus Group had to petition the city to change the single-use zone. The project will have a good urban layout that enhances the area. However, the root of the controversy didn’t lie entirely in the project itself, but rather the requirement to change the zoning.

Form-based code would prevent conflict by setting precise guidelines for what the building should look like aesthetically rather than abiding by strict single-use policies.

Minneapolis city planner Haila Maze said she and other planners are revealing their recommendations for the Dinkytown smallarea plan at the Varsity Theater on Monday night.

The city should consider deploying formbased zoning practices in Dinkytown to build the commercial node based on appearance rather than ingrained land-use requirements.

Concerning citywide zoning policy, I would recommend that the Minneapolis planning department deploy form-based strategies in certain urban nodes of the city to encourage smart growth and catalyze the development process.

Chris Iverson welcomes comments at civerson@mndaily.com.

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Gophers expected them to, Frost said, but his team didn’t come out like he expected it would.

“We just played a real poor first period tonight, and it ends up costing [us] a hockey game,” he said.

“We’ve been able to get away with it periodically … but against a really quality opponent like that, it makes it a little tougher.”

Minnesota responded in the second two periods, looking markedly better than in the first. Junior defenseman Rachel Ramsey scored on a power-play blast from the blue line 1:50 into the second period to cut the deficit to 3-1.

The Gophers’ second goal came from senior forward Sarah Davis, who won a fight for a loose puck in front of the net and sent in the Gophers’ second powerplay goal of the game.

But two goals weren’t enough to overcome the team’s poor first period.

Frost said he told his team after the game that success is “looking yourself in the mirror and asking yourself [if] you gave everything you could for yourself and for your teammates.”

“Unfor tunately, I think there’s going to be a lot of sad girls looking in the mirror tonight because they know that they didn’t give everything they had for the full 60 minutes,” he said.

Frost said he was expect-

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ing the Gophers to score late and that the team was expecting it, too. He said he was proud of the way his team generated chances until the final buzzer.

Nor th Dakota captain Michelle Kar vinen said her team had something to prove Sunday after the way Saturday’s game played out.

“We didn’t feel good after last night, but we looked at some video and got together as a team,” she said.

“We came back today, [and] I think it proved a lot about what kind of team we are.”

On Saturday, senior Kelly Terry set the tone for the Gophers by using her speed to create a breakaway. In all alone, she deked North Dakota’s goalie for a goal.

Sophomore Hannah Brandt said Saturday that she thought Terr y’s goal got the team going.

Minnesota dominated the second period, scoring four goals to put the game out of reach, and won 6-1.

Freshman Megan Wolfe, a natural for ward who’s been playing defense this year, scored the team’s second and third goals.

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Minnesota forward Bethany Brausen fights for the puck against North Dakota on Sunday at Ridder Arena. The Gophers lost 3-2.

Wolfe was starting at forward for the first time this season, and the goals were the first and second of her college career.

“We’ve got a lot of shuffling players, a lot of versatility going on,” Brausen said Saturday. “And you can

see how key it is that those players do come out and play as well as they [have been].”

Though the score indicated a blowout Saturday, North Dakota outshot the Gophers 35-30.

“It wasn’t a 6-1 game,”

MEN’S HOCKEY

Shibrowski fills in, helps Gophers to a series sweep of the Mavericks Michael Shibrowski started in net and recorded his first career shutout.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Minnesota goaltender Michael Shibrowski stands in the crease against Minnesota StateMankato on Saturday. The Gophers swept the Mavericks with Saturday’s 3-0 win.

That hard work paid off in the form of confidence Saturday night — he wasn’t afraid to leave the net to feed pucks to his defense.

“Shibs is such a great guy,” freshman defender Jake Bischof f said. “He shows up ever y day with a smile on his face and just really cheers us all on.”

Bischoff tallied the Gophers’ first goal Saturday night about six minutes into the game. After a scoreless second period, senior for ward Tom Ser ratore added some insurance at the 11-minute mark in the final period. Freshman for ward Hudson Fasching sealed the deal about three minutes later with a goal that pushed the lead to 3-0.

“We definitely wanted to play better for [Shibrowski] and just tr y to get him the best game that he can have,” Bischoff said.

Shibrowski didn’t overlook his teammates’ effor ts. He said their help made the night for him.

“It’s definitely something special,” Shibrowski said. “I can’t tell you how many guys were stepping

up, blocking shots or doing ever ything they can to help me. That probably means the most to me.”

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY

Reillys reconnect With Wilcox between the pipes Friday night, Minnesota jumped out to an early lead and coasted to a 4-1 win.

The Gophers built a 2-0 lead in the first period with goals from freshman for ward Justin Kloos and sophomore defenseman Mike Reilly. Reilly made the scoring sheet again when he assisted on a goal from his brother, redshir t freshman for ward Connor Reilly.

Lucia said he thought this was the first time since 2004 that two brothers have scored in the same game.

“I’m pr etty sur e my parents are pretty excited about it,” Connor Reilly said.

Connor Reilly scored on the power play — the team’s sixth conversion with the man advantage this season.

Reilly moved to the power-play unit last Wednesday and said he tried to make the most

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of the oppor tunity, even though he wasn’t pleased with his practice the day before the game.

Mike Reilly said he saw the power play begin to click in the series with the Mavericks. Wilcox said he hopes it can become the team’s “bread and butter” again.

The Mavericks notched a consolation goal from junior defenseman Zach Palmquist about halfway through the final period, but Minnesota junior forward Seth Ambroz housed an empty-net goal to solidify the win.

The No. 1 Gophers are 8-1-1 this season.

“We always talked about how the streak wasn’t our focus, and now it can truly be out of our heads,” Brausen said Sunday. “It’s not something we’re going to be thinking about day in and day out, so while it’s a curse, it’s a blessing.”

WRESTLING

Minnesota wins seven titles at Open tourney The Gophers won in every weight class except 133, 157 and 165.

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Sophomore goaltender Adam Wilcox led the Gophers to an impressive 4-1 win Friday night with 34 saves against Minnesota State-Mankato.

Still, Wilcox didn’t take his usual place in net in Saturday’s 3-0 win to complete the series sweep.

He wasn’t playing poorly and wasn’t injured.

Gophers head coach Don Lucia just wanted to give senior goaltender Michael Shibrowski a belated birthday gift after he turned 23 a day earlier.

“It was one of the better presents I got this year,” Shibrowski said after stopping 25 shots and recording his first career shutout.

That was an impressive feat considering Saturday night was just his seventh collegiate game and fourth start.

And if the stats weren’t enough, Shibrowski also ear ned the Hear t of the Game and First Star awar ds for his per formance.

“It’s nice to see good things happen to good people,” Lucia said. “And Shibby’s as good as they get.”

Lucia said the coaching staff decided earlier in the week to split the goaltenders in this series, but Shibrowski said he only learned of his star t Saturday morning.

Lucia said the team captains had been calling for some ice time for the backup goaltender —one of the most well-liked players on the team.

Shibrowski stays after practice to keep improving even though he doesn’t play much, Lucia said.

Frost said, “but when we get some momentum, in particular at home with our crowd behind us, it makes our team pretty hard to stop.”

The Gophers will head back on the road to take on Yale next weekend in New Haven, Conn.

The Gophers won seven of 10 titles at the Harold Nichols Open in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday without two of their top wrestlers in the lineup.

David Thorn and Dylan Ness, Minnesota’s 133- and 157-pound wrestlers, did not make the trip because of schoolwork and minor injuries, head assistant coach Brandon Eggum said.

Eggum said both could have wrestled Saturday and both will return Friday for Minnesota’s dual meet against Purdue.

The Gophers displayed their depth and durability without Ness and Thorn.

Redshirt juniors Nick and Chris Dardanes won the 149and 141-pound titles, respectively. Junior Logan Storley recorded two pins and won the 174-pound title, redshirt freshman Brett Pfarr won at 184 pounds and redshirt junior Scott Schiller captured the 197-pound title.

Redshirt senior Tony Nelson, the nation’s top-ranked heavyweight wrestler, recorded three pins and won the heavyweight title. Redshirt freshman Sam Brancale, a 125-pound wrestler, went 5-0 and won his first title at

WRESTLING TITLE WINNERS HAROLD NICHOLS OPEN 125 Brancale 141 Dardanes, C. 149 Dardanes, N. 174 Storley 184 Pfarr 197 Schiller HWT Nelson

SOURCE: TRACKWRESTLING.COM

Minnesota.

Brancale and Pfarr are the only newcomers in an otherwise veteran Minnesota lineup. Pfarr could lose his spot once All-American Kevin Steinhaus returns from an ACL injury.

Eggum has said he expects Steinhaus, a redshirt senior, to return in early December.

Pfarr has won back-toback titles to start the season and said he’s enjoying the opportunity to wrestle for the Gophers.

Minnesota’s only non-firstplace finishes Saturday came at 133, 157 and 165 pounds.

Freshman Nate Thomas lost in the second round at 133 pounds, and redshirt freshman Brandon Kingsley finished in third place at 157 pounds. Redshirt senior Danny Zilverberg took second at 165 pounds.

The Gophers open their dual-meet season next weekend with a match against Purdue and will also face Wyoming at the Sports Pavilion.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hollins leads late run in victory on road

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota guard Andre Hollins defends against Montana on Tuesday at Williams Arena.

Minnesota closed the game with a 19-0 run and won 74-59 on Saturday.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers couldn’t find an answer for Richmond’s of fense Saturday night.

The Spiders ran a Princeton-style attack featuring cuts and drives to the bucket that ear ned them easy baskets and put Gophers junior guards DeAndre Mathieu and Andre Hollins in foul trouble.

So trailing by four with 7 : 2 5 t o p l a y, G o p h e r s head coach Richard Pitino changed his team’s defense.

“I went zone because they were car ving our man [defense] up really good and we couldn’t get stops,” he said. “It’s Princeton on steroids.”

The zone provided the answer the Gophers were looking for all evening.

Minnesota outscored Richmond 19-0 down the stretch to defeat the Spiders 74-59 in Richmond, Va. “I told them, ‘Listen, if you want to win on the road, you’ve got to get

stops. You’ve got to rebound,’ ” Pitino said. “And they did that, so I’m real proud of them.”

The Gophers’ of fense rode the back of Andre Hollins most of the night — par ticularly down the stretch.

Hollins scored eight of the Gophers’ final 19 points to finish with 26 points on 7-for-17 shooting. He added seven rebounds in a team-high 37 minutes.

Malik Smith (11 points), Austin Hollins (11) and Joey King (10) also cracked double figures.

Austin Hollins led the team in rebounding for the

SOCCER

MINNESOTA 74, RICHMOND 59 Minnesota

40 34 — 74

Richmond

37 22 — 59

RICHMOND

MINNESOTA Player Osenieks Eliason Hollins, An. Hollins, Au. Mathieu Ahanmisi King Ellenson Smith Total

FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF 23 2-8 2-3 1-5 0 2 29 0-1 2-4 2-9 1 2 37 7-17 10-11 4-7 2 4 27 3-13 3-4 4-11 2 2 22 2-6 0-3 0-3 3 4 7 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 1 26 5-8 0-2 4-7 0 3 7 1-2 0-1 1-3 0 2 22 4-10 0-0 0-3 1 0 200 25-67 17-28 19-54 9

Pts 6 2 26 11 4 2 10 2 11

20 74

the Gophers led 40-37 at the break.

Pitino said it was important to earn a victor y in a road environment against an Atlantic 10 opponent — especially with Big Ten road tests looming less than two months away.

Player Min Allen 33 Nelson-Ododa 22 Williams 12 Lindsay 38 Sparrow 20 Anthony 21 Jones, J. 3 Jones, S. 5 Davis 21 Taylor 25 Total 200

FG FT M-A M-A 0-4 3-4 3-4 2-2 2-3 0-0 5-16 5-8 2-5 0-0 3-12 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 3-5 0-2 4-10 2-3 22-60 12-18

Reb O-T Ast PF 1-12 2 3 1-8 0 2 1-4 0 4 2-3 3 3 0-2 1 3 0-1 0 3 0-0 0 0 0-0 1 1 1-2 2 3 1-3 0 2 7-37 9 24

Pts 3 9 4 15 4 7 0 0 6 11 59

“To just be able to reference back to the toughness that they showed down the stretch [is important],” Pitino said.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers lose in NCAA tourney Minnesota ended its season with a 3-0 loss to Texas Tech on Friday.

Creighton beats Gophers Minnesota turned the ball over 22 times in its first loss of the season.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers’ inability to put the ball in the back of the net has been their Achilles’ heel all season.

And it played a large part in their final loss of the year Friday. Minnesota fell 3-0 to No. 18 Texas Tech in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Lubbock, Texas.

“It’s a tough loss and hard to end the season like this,” junior midfielder Katie Thyken said at a press conference after the loss, “but … we can’t hang our heads about this season at all.”

The Gophers had chances early in the contest but couldn’t take advantage.

Texas Tech took the lead in the 10th minute on a Jessica Fuston goal.

“When we score early, we finish out the game really strong,” Thyken said at the press conference. “They got the first goal, and it’s always hard to get back on that.”

The Red Raiders struck again on a Janine Beckie rebound goal in the 32nd minute.

The Gophers went into the locker room trailing 2-0 but were outshot only 6-4 through 45 minutes.

“At halftime, the tone of the team was, ‘Hey, we’ve created opportunities. We’re there. We just have to find one of those,’ ” Gophers head coach Stefanie Golan said at the press conference.

But it was more of the

second-straight game. He pulled down 11 boards to achieve his second doubledouble in as many games.

The Gophers manhandled Richmond on the boards and held a 54-37 advantage on the glass.

Early in the game, it didn’t look like the Gophers would have much of a problem in their first road contest of the season.

Andre Hollins’ threepointer 2:35 into the game gave Minnesota a 12-0 lead. The Gophers built a 27-13 advantage on a Mathieu layup with 8:51 to play in the first half.

But Richmond responded with a 24-13 r un, and

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

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Minnesota midfielder Katie Thyken steals the ball from Illinois State on Aug. 30 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

same for the Gophers in the second half, and Minnesota couldn’t put a goal on the board.

The Gophers finished with eight corner kicks, which has been a reliable source of offense all season.

“We knew if we got one of those in, we were right back in it,” Thyken said.

But none came to fruition, and Beckie’s second goal of the game in the 80th minute put the nail in the coffin for the game and the Gophers’ season.

Moving forward Friday marked the first time in three years — and the first time in Golan’s two-year tenure — that the Gophers qualified for the NCAA tournament.

A tour nament bid seemed unlikely at the start of the season after Minnesota graduated four-year starting goalkeeper Cat Parkhill and lost last year’s leading scorer Taylor Uhl to Stanford in the July.

Golan said at the press conference that the program is moving in a positive

SOCCER RESULTS

Minnesota Texas Tech

1 0 2

2 0 1

FINAL 0 3

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

direction.

“These players really work extremely hard,” she said. “They committed to one another. They committed to how special this opportunity is to be a part of this program.”

Minnesota loses just three players to graduation this offseason and returns top goal-scorer Thyken.

The back line will need rebuilding with the loss of senior defenders Lauren Bauer and MacKenzie Misel but will be aided by the presence of 2013 Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Tarah Hobbs in net.

Hobbs was not 100 percent healthy in the loss to Texas Tech on Friday but still recorded four saves to push her season total to 122 — good for third all-time in Gophers single-season history.

Looking at the box score of the Gophers’ 6352 loss to Creighton on Saturday, it’s puzzling that they didn’t pull out the win.

Minnesota (2-1) shot 45. 5 per c en t f r om t h e field to Creighton’s 38.7 percent. It made half of its three-pointers, while the Bluejays hit just more than 30 percent from behind the arc. Minnesota also had a sizeable 37-28 rebounding advantage.

But Cr eighton (2-1) took advantage of a bevy of turnovers to hand the Gophers their first loss of the season.

“We’ve got to take care of the ball a little bit better — actually a lot better,” head coach Pam Bor ton said to r epor ters after the game. “I thought that was the dif ference in the game.”

Cr eighton took car e of the ball, only tur ning it over seven times. The Gophers, meanwhile, committed 22 tur novers that led to the Bluejays’ many fast breaks and limited Minnesota’s scoring chances.

It’s not often that junior guard Rachel Banham leaves a game without being the top scorer, but it happened Saturday.

Banham and redshir t

freshman Amanda Zahui B. led Minnesota with 14 points apiece, but Creighton’s Sarah Nelson put up 22 points to lead all scorers.

She scored seemingly at will, despite multiple defensive looks from the Gophers.

“We had no answer for her,” Bor ton said to repor ters after the game.

“We tried a lot of different things. … That was a onewoman show.”

Minnesota hasn’t been a one-woman show this season, despite having one of the best players in the countr y in Banham. She moved into 13th on the Gophers’ all-time scoring list after Saturday’s game.

Still, she isn’t the team’s top scorer in the young season.

She put up 15 points in the season opener at Nor ther n Iowa, 20 last week against Charlotte and 14 Saturday for a season average of 16.3 points per game.

Zahui B. was suspended for the Nor thern Iowa win but tallied 19 points against Charlotte and 14 Saturday for an average of 16.5 points per game.

Zahui B.’s emergence has given Minnesota more options on of fense — when she’s able to stay on the floor.

“I thought it hur t us with Amanda getting in foul trouble in the first half,” Borton said.

In the win against Charlotte, Zahui B. and three other Gophers post players all had three fouls before the first half was over.

CREIGHTON 63, MINNESOTA 52 Minnesota Creighton

22 30 — 52 36 27 — 63

MINNESOTA Player Noga Banham Mullaney Zahui B. Riche McDaniel Hirt Johnson Total

Min 40 39 30 30 27 20 11 3 200

FG M-A 3-3 5-14 2-5 6-11 2-6 2-4 0-1 0-0 20-44

FT Reb M-A O-T Ast PF 0-0 0-7 0 2 3-4 0-3 3 1 2-2 1-2 3 1 2-2 4-8 1 3 1-2 3-8 3 2 0-0 1-3 0 2 0-0 0-3 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 8-10 10-37 10 13

Pts 9 14 6 14 5 4 0 0 52

CREIGHTON Player Nelson Janning Fujan Garrison Kamphaus Jensen Akin-Otiko Rollerson Works Total

Min 37 33 28 23 12 25 21 11 10 200

FG M-A 7-12 4-16 2-9 3-5 0-1 1-4 5-9 1-2 1-4 24-62

FT Reb M-A O-T Ast 4-5 3-7 7 0-0 1-3 6 0-0 1-3 4 0-0 0-1 0 0-0 1-1 1 0-0 1-3 1 0-0 1-3 0 0-0 2-4 0 0-0 1-1 1 4-5 12-28 20

PF 4 2 1 0 1 3 1 1 0 13

Pts 22 10 4 9 0 3 10 2 3 63

That forced Borton to play an unor thodox five-guard lineup.

That didn’t happen Saturday, but Banham at times str uggled to get to the basket.

“They were clogging the lane on Rachel and making her take tough shots,” Borton said.

Bor ton said Banham needs to be tougher down low and get better at drawing fouls. A few weeks ago at Big Ten Media Day, Banham said she’s been working on building lower-body strength to work down low more this season.

Senior guard Sari Noga added nine points and seven rebounds for the Gophers while playing all 40 minutes of the game, but she also committed a team-high five turnovers.

“I just didn’t feel like we got into a real good flow offensively,” Borton said.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Kayfes paces Gophers to second place Minnesota qualified for the NCAAs on the women’s side but not the men’s.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Gophers head coach Sarah Hopkins went to sleep Friday without worr ying whether her team would be competing next weekend.

The Gophers sealed an automatic bid to the NCAA championships Friday with a second-place finish at the NCAA Midwest regional.

“I think we’re all very excited,” redshirt senior Maggie Bollig said. “We’re all really looking forward to next weekend and making another appearance at the NCAAs.” While the Gophers would have likely sealed an at-large bid had they not finished first or second, Hopkins said it was nice not having to worry about it.

“I’m definitely breathing a little easier now,” Hopkins said.

She called the Midwest Regionals weekend the most “nerve-wracking” of the season but said the Gophers had a safety net based on good performances earlier in the season.

Molly Kayfes led the Gophers with a second-place individual finish, and Hopkins said she ran “about the most perfect race.”

Hopkins said the redshirt junior was in a pack with about six people heading into the last kilometer of the race and could have finished anywhere from second to seventh.

“She was just the last one to kick, and I think everybody else was pressing, and she was just calm and relaxed,” Hopkins said.

CROSS COUNTRY

NCAA MIDWEST REGIONAL RESULTS MEN’S 10K CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 2 3 4 T-5 T-5 7 8 9 10

TEAM Oklahoma State Tulsa Iowa State Oklahoma Kansas Minnesota Illinois Missouri Nebraska South Dakota State

POINTS 45 57 113 156 157 157 210 212 320 328

WOMEN’S 6K CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

TEAM Iowa State Minnesota Oklahoma State Southern Illinois Kansas Missouri Bradley Illinois Northwestern Loyola-Chicago

POINTS 39 59 192 217 218 261 265 270 275 277

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Kayfes said Hopkins talked to the whole team about staying patient, which is what Kayfes said she was trying to do in the race.

“I think the last 300 to 400 [meters] I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to go, and once I go, I’m not letting anyone pass me,’ ” Kayfes said. “That’s kind of what I did, and it ended up going well.”

Kayfes finished the race with a career-best time of 20:20.9.

Bollig and redshirt senior Laura Docher ty finished eighth and ninth, respectively.

Minnesota placed five runners in the top 25 finishers.

Along with Kayfes, Bollig and Docherty, redshirt sophomore Becca Dyson and senior Katie Moraczewski finished in the top 25 and were awarded all-region honors.

“I thought on a great day, we could have put seven in the top 25, but five is an awesome number,” Hopkins said.

Bollig said the team is still waiting for a race in which all the runners are “really on.”

“We’re still kind of waiting for everybody to come together on the same day,” Bollig said. “I think we’re all really excited that we have another shot at NCAAs to try to make that happen.”

Men miss NCAA championships The men’s team concluded its season Friday with a tie for fifth place at the NCAA Midwest regional.

The Gophers did not receive an at-large bid to the NCAA championships, and head coach Steve Plasencia said it came down to a matter of just a few points.

“They competed ver y well,” Plasencia said of his team. “They were just a little bit short.”

He said the team knew it was going to take a “very, very good effort” to make the national meet.

The Gophers were led Friday by their three senior captains.

Andrew Larsen (18th) and Derek Storkel (23rd) finished first and second for the Gophers and made the all-region team.

John Simons finished 31st after finishing 257th at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational and 88th at the Big Ten championships.

“It takes a lot of fortitude because it’s pretty hard to come back from a couple of rough blows like he took in the last two [meets],” Plasencia said.

VOLLEYBALL

Minnesota inconsistent in weekend split at home The Gophers beat Ohio State but lost to Penn State over the weekend.

SWIMMING & DIVING

Janzen performs at Grand Prix Minnesota won a number of events in a meet with top talent on hand.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

No. 2 Penn State was the better team on paper heading into its match with the No. 11 Gophers.

And the Nittany Lions proved they were the better team on the court when they swept Minnesota on Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

“For us to win tonight, we had to play a good match, not a great match,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said following the loss, “but we had to be in it for a long period of time.”

The Gophers weren’t.

Penn State went up 9-4 in the first set and quickly drew the first blood with a first-set win.

Minnesota looked off its game in the first set with a subpar .179 hitting percentage.

“We kind of backed down and just let them come at us,” senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman said. “At one point, it was like we were afraid to screw up more than we were to just play the game and go after it like we do every single night.”

The Nittany Lions took absolute control of the match in the second set with an eight-point win while leading in nearly every statistical category.

“They were converting those little plays,” senior middle blocker Tori Dixon said.

“It’s a cover here and an extra touch [there]. At the end of the day, they kept going at it, versus we kind of backed away from it.”

The Gophers battled back in the third set and forced 16 tie scores and six lead changes. It still wasn’t enough, though, as Penn State pulled ahead late in the set and never relinquished the lead.

“I don’t think our athletes understood … that we needed to weather the storm when it came,” McCutcheon said.

It was a different stor y Friday night when Minnesota

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Molly Kayfes runs in the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

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Gophers middle blocker Tori Dixon prepares to spike the ball against Penn State on Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

brought the storm to Ohio State through a sweep of its own.

Both teams seemed evenly matched through the first set, but after some pivotal defensive adjustments, Minnesota broke the match open.

McCutcheon said his team “upgraded” on defense after the first set, and that helped lead it to victory.

“One of our focuses this week was to get a little cleaner on the defensive end. So it was nice we were able to do that,” he said.

While a majority of the team stood out over the weekend, Wittman was on a different level.

She recorded back-to back double-doubles in the two-match span. She had 13 kills and 15 digs against Ohio State and had 13 kills and 12

The Gophers men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams took a break from their regular collegiate competition this Thursday through Saturday and instead faced off against some of the sport’s best in the Arena Grand Prix at the University Aquatic Center.

The Minneapolis meet was the first in the 2013-14 Arena Grand Prix Series, which will travel to five other cities during the next seven months.

And while the Gophers competed against Olympiccaliber opponents, they didn’t sink in comparison.

“That can happen in ever y sport, where you play to your competition; so to speak,” head men’s and women’s coach Kelly Kremer said. “I was so happy to see our team swim up to the competition. I think we performed much better because of [it].”

The women’s team started the weekend strong Thursday night, boasting three second-place finishes and grabbing the top two spots in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Gophers junior Kiera Janzen took home two secondplace finishes and was just

0.14 seconds behind the leader in the 200 freestyle.

“This was her first meet with international competition,” Kremer said. “[It was] her first meet as a national teamer, and I thought she handled it great.”

Janzen lost to Athens Bulldog Swim Club member Megan Romano, who holds American, U.S. Open and NCAA records in the event.

Swimmers of her caliber and beyond were the norm throughout the weekend.

The Gophers faced of f against plenty of recordholders, Olympians and even Olympic medalists.

But the Gophers weren’t fazed by the level of competition.

“When you’re in that race, it’s just competition,” senior captain Luke Bushman said. “You don’t see Olympic medals. You don’t see Olympians. You just see the guy next to you. You’re just trying to get your hand on the wall first.”

The women were able to touch first eight times throughout the competition.

Janzen won the 500 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay. Sophomore Kierra Smith won the 200 breaststroke, 200 individual medley and 400 medley relay. Senior Tess Behrens was also on Smith’s winning relay team and won the 200 backstroke. The women also won the 400 freestyle relay.

“The thing that sets our women’s team apart from

SWIMMING AND DIVING GRAND PRIX WINNERS WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL EVENTS Events Won

Kierra Smith

200 y breaststroke 200 y IM

Kiera Janzen

500 y freestyle 1,650 y freestyle

Tess Behrens

200 y backstroke

MEN’S RELAY Events Won

400 y freestyle relay 400 y medley relay WOMEN’S RELAY Events Won

400 y freestyle relay 800 y freestyle relay 400 y medley relay SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

some other programs … is that they truly enjoy the competition,” head women’s coach Terry Nieszner said.

“There was no fear involved … [and] they look forward to it. They can’t wait to race.

They can’t wait to compete.”

Though the men only recorded two wins — in the 400 freestyle relay and 400 medley relay — the grueling three-day Grand Prix helped both teams prepare for longer meets like the Big Ten and NCAA championships later in the season.

“It’s a lot of racing, but that’s something they’re going to have to get used to,” Kremer said. “They rose to that occasion.”

VOLLEYBALL RESULTS FRIDAY Ohio State Minnesota

1 2 3 FINAL 19 19 15 0 25 25 25 3

SATURDAY Penn State Minnesota

1 2 3 25 25 25 20 17 23

FINAL 3 0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

digs against Penn State.

“I try to be as stable and consistent in all parts of my game as I can,” Wittman said.

“I know it’s only going to help our team.”

The Gophers will need that stable play next weekend when they travel to Michigan for matches against Michigan and Michigan State.

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Minnesota’s Kiera Janzen high-fives former Gophers swimmer Ashley Steenvoorden after Janzen won the women’s 1,650-yard freestyle at the Arena Grand Prix on Saturday at The University Aquatic Center.

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

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Today’s Birthday (11/18): Your muses inspire you this year, especially in autumn and next April. These creative bursts boost career and finances, with a late summer megaphone.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — You love doing what you know how to do for the next few days, which helps you realize your own value.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — You have itchy feet. Go ahead, you can take new ground. Travel looks adventurous and well worth the experience.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Go after money shamelessly, but with integrity. Your value is becoming more apparent, and your work more public.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — The more you learn and the more you’re willing to grow, the more attractive you become. Track calls, orders and income carefully.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You’re getting stronger (and more impatient). Use new powers for your benefit and also for your community.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — You get a bright idea in the shower. Polish your presentation and change another’s perception.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — No need to stress over the small stuff, even if tempted. Conserve your resources. Find strength in nature.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Don’t worry about money. Get busy instead and find ways to add to your bottom line. The more you learn, the more you earn.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Launch your adventure or next project soon. Love the new you. A conflict with a partner provides opportunity to rebuild your friendship.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Your work routine is shifting; find opportunities despite temporary setbacks. Overall, life’s getting a whole lot easier.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — You’re entering a turning point regarding your responsibilities. Work could interfere with pleasure, and you’d have to choose.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Turn your attention toward home. It’s not too late to have that party you wanted. A secret idea pays off. Let go of an old fear.

Monday, November 18, 2013

overheard Professor: “I’m sorry. I was trying to give you an example you’d understand, but if you don’t know who Superman is, then there’s just no point in teaching you.”

—Folwell Hall

Student: “When did you decide to be a professor?”

Professor: “I still don’t want to be a professor.”

—Bailey Hall

Girl: “One of my dad’s favorite things to do is edit Wiki pages.”

—Murphy Hall

Professor “It’s very nice to be back here. I remember when I was a freshman about 41 years ago. They still have the same cups!”

“We’re on the St. Paul campus. Go milk a cow!”

—Bailey Hall

Person [referring to Susan Boyle]: “Would anyone care about her if she couldn’t sing? They just threw her on stage like King Kong and forced her to perform.”

—Science Teaching and Student Services Building

Guy: “Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks of being in captivity, they can train people to stand on the edge of the pool and throw them fish?”

Girl: “Wait, what?”

—Near Northrop Mall

—Bailey Hall

Girl: “She’s like a glass of ice water, and I’m like ... a blender.”

—Near Rapson Hall

Professor 1: “PCR was used to prove that OJ was —” Professor 2: “Guilty, yeah ...”

Professor 1: “Um, no, completely innocent.”

—Amundson Hall

“How do you even take money out of your credit score anyways?”

—Willey Hall

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dr. date Dr. Date,

WOW! I walked in on my girlfriend with my roommate. Doing it. With him.

In my apartment. In his bed. Needless to say, we are all now single. But she’s still coming over to have sex with my roommate. I can hear them. It kills me. Most times I leave the house or put on headphones, but it just … It hurts so much to have them here, in the bedroom over, continuing to do what hurt me so bad in the first place. What should I do?

—Sexiled

Stuck In The Mud,

Are you on the lease? Is he? One of you needs to move out as soon as humanly possible. Maybe that’s impulsive on my part, but holy crap, your current living situation is so not okay.

If it happens that both of you are on the lease, you have a few options. One is to have a very firm, direct conversation about how it is unacceptable for your roommate to have sex with your ex-girlfriend in your own apartment. If he doesn’t respond well, find someone to sublease your room on your own time and GTFO. If you’re both on the lease, the house is just as much yours as it is his. If his behavior is affecting your ability to feel comfortable in your own home, something needs to change.

This is an atrocious situation to be in, and your discomfort is more than understandable. I’m really feeling for you. I don’t know how you’ve refrained from punching this dude in the balls, but good on you. Stay calm and move on.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m a senior, and I’ve been in a longdistance relationship for all of college.

My boyfriend lives in Florida, where he goes to college. We’ve missed each other, of course, but we’ve been making it work. We’re both pretty relaxed and love dirty Skype sessions.

The weird thing is, I’ve always imag-

ined that graduation was the light at the end of our tunnel — I thought we’d find a way to be together. But now it’s looking like my boyfriend wants to join the Peace Corps. I think that’s awesome — it’s definitely something he’d be good at. But it will mean he’ll be in Africa for two years.

I’m torn.

Since he’s still in the planning/decision-making phase, I know there’s time for him to change his mind, and I could probably sway him to stay here just by being like, “Aw, I wish you wouldn’t go.”

But I don’t want to stop him from doing something that I think will be so important to him. And I mean, what’s another two years, right? What do you think, Dr. Date? How selfish am I allowed to be here? I don’t want to hold him back, but I do want to hold him …

—Anonymous

Six Years Of Solitude,

Do you really think you can make it that long? If so, I’m impressed. When I’m in a relationship, I’m OK with being apart for a month, max — otherwise, I feel I’m being held back.

What does your relationship look like at this point? Spending even more time apart will increase the emotional distance that inevitably comes with spending four years away from one another.

You didn’t mention how often you see each other, so I’m going by the assumption that it’s not very often.

What’s keeping you in the relationship? Are you afraid to move on, or are you certain he’s your true love?

There’s nothing selfish about expressing your hesitancy. I can’t think of many people who would be OK spending six years away from a significant other, and I’m left to wonder whether you’re being completely honest with yourself. Is this really what you want?

Take some time to think about what you’re getting out of the relationship and what you’re envisioning for the future.

You’ve got more power in this situation than you may realize.

—Dr. Date

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Monday, November 18, 2013

mayor, black wife: Tense week ahead White NYC shatters an image for UN climate talks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WARSAW, Poland — U.N. climate talks head into a tense final week Monday after the diplomatic ef for t to r educe global warming gases was hit by a series of setbacks, including Japan’s decision to ditch its voluntar y emissions target.

The two-decade-old negotiations have so far failed to achieve their goal of slashing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet. They don’t seem to be getting any closer after a tumultuous first week at this year’s session in Warsaw.

Despite a tear ful call for action from a delegate from the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, no major carbon polluter raised their pledges to cut emissions.

Instead, Australia’s conser vative government fulfilled a campaign promise and introduced a bill to scrap the countr y’s carbon tax, while Japan drastically scaled back its emissions target.

The moves drew criticism from developing countries who say the

world’s rich countries have a historical responsibility for climate change and should take the lead in fighting it.

“We need to be ver y concerned with individual actions of developed countries that are backtracking (on) their commitments,” said Brazilian negotiator Jose Marcondes de Car valho.

Most Australian economists agree that the countr y cannot achieve its voluntar y target of reducing emissions by 5 percent by 2020 without industr y paying a price on carbon.

Japan said its initial target of reducing emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels was unrealistic. Following the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, Japan shut all its nuclear plants for safety checks and had to shift back to power coming from coal, oil and gas, all of which are heavy on CO2 emissions. Japan’s new target represents a 3 percent increase over 1990 emissions.

Brazil, too, delivered bad news at the talks when it reported that annual destr uction of its Amazon

rainforest jumped by 28 percent after four straight years of declines.

Scientists say that the main ways that humans are af fecting the climate system is through the CO2 emissions from bur ning fossil fuels and deforestation.

Though no major decisions are on the agenda in Warsaw, the talks are meant to pave the way for a bigger global climate treaty in 2015. Environmental groups watching the first week of talks were discouraged.

“After one week, the world gover nments continue to disappoint their citizens who are fighting against catastrophic climate change and its devastating impacts,” said Martin Kaiser of Greenpeace.

Climate activists are expected to stage protests Monday when a highprofile coal industr y summit kicks of f at Poland’s Economy Ministr y. Coal is a major contributor to CO2 emissions and activists are outraged that coal-reliant Poland is presiding over the coal event at the same time as the U.N. climate conference.

Another milestone is passing in America’s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife.

Even in a nation with a biracial president, where inter racial mar riage is more accepted and common than ever, Bill de Blasio’s marriage to Chirlane McCray is remarkable: He is apparently the first white politician in U.S. histor y elected to a major of fice with a black spouse by his side.

This simple fact is striking a deep chord in many people as de Blasio prepares to take office on Jan. 1, with McCray playing a major role in his administration.

“It reflects the American values of embracing different races, ethnicities, religions. I think it’s just a great symbol,” said William Cohen, the former Maine senator and Secretar y of Defense, who is married to a black woman.

Cohen was already a senator when he star ted dating Janet Langhar t, a black television journalist.

He proposed several times, but she feared that her race would hur t Cohen’s political future. They married in 1996, a few weeks after Cohen announced he would not seek a four th term.

“There has been that fear (of inter racial marriage) on the part of politicians. I didn’t have it,” Cohen said. He noted that a few white politicians have mar ried Latino or Asian women, like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose wife is from Mexico, or Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is married to the Taiwan-born former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.

There have been black men in politics who have been mar ried to white women, such as Supreme Cour t Justice Clarence Thomas or former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke. And high-profile women such as South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose parents are from India, and Mia Love, the black mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, are married to white men.

Yet unions of white men and black women have retained a forbidden aura, Cohen said.

“It’s black and white, it’s slaver y and Jim Crow and the fact you can’t talk about it,” he said. “Black and white has been more of a taboo in the eyes of enough

people to be a deterrent.”

The taboo is declining, polls show.

In July, a Gallup poll found that 87 percent of Americans approved of interracial marriage — the highest rate ever — compared with 4 percent in 1958. In 2010, more than 15 percent of all new marriages were interracial, according to the Pew Research Center.

Yet statistics also indicate why de Blasio and McCray are such a rarity.

The Gallup poll showed that 14 percent of white people did not approve of intermarriage, compared with 2 percent of black people. And white men are the least likely to marr y outside of their race — more than 97 percent of white men are married to white women (82 percent of black men, 65 percent of Hispanics and 48 percent of Asians mar r y within their own group). The figures are based on 2005 census data analyzed by Michael Rosenfeld, a Stanford University sociologist who studies inter racial marriage.

Much has been made of the dif ficulties black women have in selecting husbands from a pool of eligible black men shrunk by unemployment and incarceration. Among black women age 35 and over, more than 25 percent have never been married, compared with about 7 percent of white women, census figures show. Black men also are twice as likely as black women to marry outside of their race, according to Rosenfeld.

American histor y and culture, meanwhile, are littered with troubled tales of inter racial couples.

There have been centuries of debate over President Thomas Jef ferson fathering children with his slave Sally Hemings; Sen. Strom Thurmond fought for segregation after having a child with a black housekeeper. In his 1991 film, Spike Lee dubbed interracial sex “Jungle Fever.”

All of which helps explain why many saw the matrimonial script being flipped by McCray and de Blasio.

“We’r e seeing black women loved in a way we have not seen before,” said Aja Monet, a poet and New Yorker.

She sees this trend in real life and fiction, from McCray to first lady Michelle Obama to the Olivia Pope character in “Scandal,” the hit TV show about

a power ful black political operative in a relationship with a white president.

Monet has black, Cuban, Jamaican and Puerto Rican heritage. Her boyfriend is Korean-American.

She noted that McCray and her brown children not only helped de Blasio connect with black voters — “their love functioned like a political technology” — but McCray also was a key player in de Blasio’s campaign and will be an impor tant part of his Democratic administration.

“It’s fair to say the most important voice in my life is Chirlane McCray,” de Blasio said after his victory.

As de Blasio and McCray celebrated on election night with their two children, Tiya Miles saw them on television and stopped in her tracks. “I was ver y moved,” she said.

Miles, a black University of Michigan professor, recently wrote a column about being stung by the sight of so many successful black men choosing white wives. It feels like “a personal rejection of the group in which I am a part, of African American women as a whole, who have always been devalued in this society,” Miles wrote.

“I think black women sit there with these feelings and they fester, and they take little bits of us over time,” Miles said in an interview. “We can deal, we can manage, we keep on moving because that’s our job in life, but it still affects us.”

So for her, de Blasio and McCray’s victor y feels like confirmation — especially since McCray does not resemble the type of black woman that mainstream America usually deems beautiful, like Halle Berr y or Beyonce.

“A woman who has darker skin and natural hair, and a white man,” Miles said. “To see a black woman who is in a longter m r elationship with children and her par tner, who does not fit that stiff, nar row, idealized image of what a black woman should look like, I think is powerful.”

It’s more a simple sign of progress for Love, the mayor from Utah and a rising Republican star.

“I tend not to look at race in any issue,” she said.

However, “the fact that people are able to marr y someone outside of their race without feeling as if they are going to have any issues or repercussions is a great thing.”

Jackson named dean, health VP Jackson u from Page 1

An exter nal review of the AHC last year repor ted that the combined post of Medical School dean and vice pr esident for health sciences could lead to a conflict of interest or be a job too big for one person.

But Kaler, who has expressed suppor t for the dual position in the past, said the responsibilities of the two jobs don’t justify separate full-time positions.

“It is a big job, but it’s a job that’s manageable by someone who has organizational skill as Brooks does,” he said at the press conference.

Jackson said assigning both positions to one person will make it easier for the health sciences to work together and face the rapidly changing health care system.

“I think we’re going to undergo more change in the next 10 years than we have in the last 100,” he said.

Reser ving both jobs for one person also dovetails with Kaler’s goal of streamlining the University’s administrative functions, the president said.

Legislators have scr utinized the University’s

administrative spending in the past, but a Universitycontracted consulting firm deter mined the institution’s spending to be within “healthy” levels.

Priorities The University plucked Jackson from a final list of three candidates, all of whom gave public interviews last month.

Kaler said the University looked for four main qualities in candidates: strong scholarship, leadership experience, understanding the missions of the Medical School and the AHC, and understanding the University’s relationship with Fair view Health Ser vices.

The University, Fairview and University of Minnesota Physicians entered into an agreement in March that unified the academic aspects of each organization under common leadership.

Fair view declined to consider a proposed merger with the University earlier this year.

Kaler said he’d like to see Fair view and the University move closer to a full partnership. “ We h a v e t o m a k e sure our incentives are aligned,” Jackson said.

Reaching for funding J o h n s H o p k i n s U n iversity’s pathology de-

par tment rose from fifth to first nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding under Jackson, according to a University of Minnesota press release.

In his public inter view, Jackson said he thought the University had the potential to crack the list of the top 10 or 15 institutions receiving NIH funding in the next decade.

The University currently ranks 18th in NIH funding.

Jackson said private donations rivaled public funding in some of his years at Johns Hopkins.

But attracting private money to the University may be more dif ficult, he said.

“Sometimes I think that the public feels, ‘Well, it’s a public institution,’ ”he said. “ ‘So it’s already funded to some extent.’”

Reaching out to patients, alumni and T win Cities businesses will be key in attracting private dollars, Jackson said.

University of Minnesota Physicians CEO Dr. Bobbi Daniels, who ser ved on the search committee for the positions, called Jackson the ideal candidate for the job.

“I don’t think people can understand how outstanding Dr. Jackson really is,” she said. “We’re so lucky to have been able to attract him.”